San Diego Padres vs San Francisco Giants
April 11, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 11, 1979 at Candlestick Park. 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 Diego Padres 4, San Francisco Giants 1

San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Richards cf 5 0 1 0
Smith ss 5 0 0 0
Hargrove 1b 3 1 0 0
Winfield rf 4 1 3 1
Turner lf 4 1 2 0
Tenace c 1 1 1 1
  Fingers p 0 0 0 0
Gonzalez 2b 4 0 2 2
Evans 3b 4 0 0 0
Jones p 3 0 0 0
  Fahey c 1 0 1 0
Totals 34 4 10 4
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
North cf 3 0 0 1
Whitfield lf 4 0 0 0
Madlock 2b 4 0 0 0
Clark rf 3 0 1 0
Ivie 1b 4 0 0 0
Evans 3b 4 0 1 0
Hill c 1 0 0 0
  Venable pr 0 1 0 0
  Sadek c 1 0 0 0
  Tamargo ph 1 0 0 0
LeMaster ss 3 0 2 0
  Metzger ph 1 0 0 0
Montefusco p 1 0 0 0
  Andrews ph 1 0 1 0
  Griffin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 5 1
San Diego 011 001 0104100
San Francisco 000 010 000150
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Jones  W (1-1) 7.0 4 1 1 3 3
  Fingers  SV (2) 2.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
3
5
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Montefusco  L (1-1) 7.0 6 3 3 4 1
  Griffin   2.0 4 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
4
2

  E–None.  DP–San Francisco 1.  2B–San Diego Gonzalez (1,off Montefusco); Winfield (2,off Montefusco); Richards (2,off Montefusco); Fahey (1,off Griffin).  3B–San Diego Tenace (1,off Griffin).  SF–Tenace (1,off Montefusco).  SH–Montefusco (1,off Jones).  CS–Tenace (1,Home by Montefusco/Hill); Winfield (1,2nd base by Griffin/Sadek).  U-HP–Tony Patch, 1B–Fred Brocklander, 2B–Jim Cuneo, 3B–Roy Roth.  T–2:36.  A–17,778.
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