New York Yankees vs Los Angeles Dodgers
October 17, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 17, 1978 at Dodger Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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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New York Yankees 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 2

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 4 0 0 0
  Blair cf 1 0 0 0
White lf 4 1 1 0
  Thomasson lf 0 0 0 0
Munson c 5 0 1 0
Jackson dh 5 1 1 2
Piniella rf 4 1 1 0
  Johnstone rf 0 0 0 0
Nettles 3b 4 1 1 0
Spencer 1b 3 1 0 0
Doyle 2b 4 2 3 2
Dent ss 4 0 3 3
Hunter p 0 0 0 0
  Gossage p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 7 11 7
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 4 1 2 2
Russell ss 3 0 1 0
Smith rf 4 0 0 0
Garvey 1b 4 0 0 0
Cey 3b 4 0 1 0
Baker lf 3 0 0 0
Monday cf 3 0 0 0
Ferguson c 3 1 2 0
Davalillo dh 2 0 1 0
Sutton p 0 0 0 0
  Welch p 0 0 0 0
  Rau p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 7 2
New York 030 002 2007110
Los Angeles 101 000 000271
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Hunter  W (1-1) 7.0 6 2 2 1 3
  Gossage   2.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
1
5
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Sutton  L (0-2) 5.2 8 5 5 1 6
  Welch   1.1 2 2 2 1 2
  Rau   2.0 1 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
11
7
7
2
11

  E–Ferguson (1).  DP–New York 2.  2B–New York Doyle (1,off Sutton), Los Angeles Ferguson 2 (2,off Hunter 2).  HR–New York Jackson (2,7th inning off Welch 1 on, 1 out), Los Angeles Lopes (3,1st inning off Hunter 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Davalillo (1,off Hunter).  SB–Lopes (2,2nd base off Hunter/Munson).  CS–Russell (2,2nd base by Hunter/Munson).  WP–Sutton (1).  U–Joe Brinkman (AL), Ed Vargo (NL), Bill Haller (AL), John Kibler (NL), Frank Pulli (NL), Marty Springstead (AL).  T–2:34.  A–55,985.
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