San Francisco Giants vs San Diego Padres
September 21, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 21, 1978 at San Diego Stadium. The San Diego Padres defeated the San Francisco Giants and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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San Francisco Giants 1, San Diego Padres 5

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Madlock 2b 4 0 1 0
Whitfield lf 4 1 1 0
Clark rf 4 0 3 0
Evans 3b 4 0 0 1
Dwyer 1b 3 0 0 0
Herndon cf 4 0 1 0
Tamargo c 3 0 0 0
  Lavelle p 0 0 0 0
  Plank p 0 0 0 0
Metzger ss 3 0 0 0
Montefusco p 2 0 0 0
  Hill c 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1
San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Richards lf 4 1 4 1
  Champion 2b 1 0 0 0
Smith ss 5 1 2 1
Perkins 1b 4 0 0 0
Winfield cf,rf 3 1 1 0
Turner rf 4 0 2 2
  Fingers p 0 0 0 0
Tenace c 2 0 1 1
Evans 3b 4 0 1 0
Gonzalez 2b 3 1 2 0
  Almon pr 0 1 0 0
  Thomas cf 1 0 0 0
Perry p 1 0 0 0
  Wilhelm lf 1 0 1 0
Totals 33 5 14 5
San Francisco 000 000 001162
San Diego 001 000 40x5141
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Montefusco  L (11-8) 6.1 9 2 2 2 2
  Lavelle   0.2 4 3 3 1 0
  Plank   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
14
5
5
3
2
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Perry  W (20-6) 7.0 4 0 0 1 5
  Fingers   2.0 2 1 1 0 2
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
7

  E–Herndon (10), Montefusco (2), Perkins (2).  DP–San Francisco 2.  2B–San Francisco Clark 2 (44,off Perry,off Fingers).  SH–Perry 2 (12,off Montefusco 2).  IBB–Winfield (19,by Lavelle).  SB–Herndon (13,2nd base off Perry/Tenace); Turner (5,2nd base off Montefusco/Tamargo); Wilhelm (1,2nd base off Plank/Hill).  CS–Clark (9,2nd base by Perry/Tenace).  IBB–Lavelle (10,Winfield).  U-HP–Jim Quick, 1B–Jerry Crawford, 2B–Doug Harvey, 3B–Andy Olsen.  T–2:26.  A–13,329.
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