Montreal Expos vs Pittsburgh Pirates
July 4, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 4, 1978 at Three Rivers Stadium. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Montreal Expos and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4

Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Cromartie lf 4 0 0 0
Cash 2b 4 0 0 0
Garrett 3b 4 1 2 0
Perez 1b 4 2 3 3
Valentine rf 4 0 1 0
Unser cf 2 0 0 0
Papi ss 3 0 0 0
  Carter ph 1 0 0 0
Herrmann c 4 0 1 0
Twitchell p 1 0 0 0
  Parrish ph 1 0 1 0
  Pirtle p 0 0 0 0
  Dawson ph 1 0 0 0
  Knowles p 0 0 0 0
  Speier ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 8 3
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Taveras ss 5 0 1 0
Moreno cf 2 1 1 1
Milner lf 2 1 1 0
  Brye rf 2 0 0 0
Robinson B. rf,lf 4 1 1 2
Stargell 1b 3 1 2 1
Ott c 2 0 0 0
Garner 2b 4 0 1 0
Macha 3b 2 0 0 0
  Mendoza 3b 1 0 0 0
Robinson D. p 3 0 1 0
  Tekulve p 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 8 4
Montreal 200 001 000380
Pittsburgh 013 000 00x480
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Twitchell  L (3-7) 4.0 6 4 4 3 2
  Pirtle   2.0 2 0 0 2 1
  Knowles   2.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
8
4
4
6
3
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Robinson  W (5-2) 7.1 8 3 3 1 6
  Tekulve  SV (11) 1.2 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
2
7

  E–None.  DP–Montreal 1, Pittsburgh 1.  PB–Ott (9).  2B–Montreal Valentine (17,off D Robinson), Pittsburgh Stargell (10,off Pirtle).  HR–Montreal Perez 2 (7,1st inning off D Robinson 1 on, 2 out,6th inning off D Robinson 0 on, 1 out), Pittsburgh Stargell (12,2nd inning off Twitchell 0 on, 0 out); Moreno (2,3rd inning off Twitchell 0 on, 1 out); B Robinson (4,3rd inning off Twitchell 1 on, 1 out).  IBB–Ott (3,by Pirtle); Moreno (3,by Pirtle).  SB–Macha (2,2nd base off Twitchell/Herrmann); Taveras (22,2nd base off Pirtle/Herrmann).  WP–Twitchell (7).  IBB–Pirtle 2 (2,Ott,Moreno).  U-HP–Jerry Crawford, 1B–Ed Vargo, 2B–Doug Harvey, 3B–Andy Olsen.  T–2:17.  A–15,001.
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