Cincinnati Reds vs San Diego Padres
April 15, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 15, 1979 at San Diego Stadium. The San Diego Padres defeated the Cincinnati Reds 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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Cincinnati Reds 3, San Diego Padres 6

Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Griffey rf 4 0 1 0
Concepcion ss 5 0 1 1
Morgan 2b 5 2 3 1
Foster lf 4 0 2 0
Bench c 4 0 0 1
Driessen 1b 3 0 0 0
Knight 3b 3 0 1 0
Geronimo cf 3 1 0 0
Norman p 1 0 0 0
  Collins ph 1 0 0 0
  Tomlin p 0 0 0 0
  Borbon p 0 0 0 0
  Summers ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 8 3
San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Richards cf 5 0 1 0
Smith ss 3 1 2 0
Turner lf 3 0 0 1
Winfield rf 4 0 1 0
Perkins 1b 4 1 2 1
Tenace c 4 0 0 0
Evans 3b 4 1 0 0
Gonzalez 2b 3 2 2 0
Jones p 2 1 1 0
  D'Acquisto p 2 0 1 2
Totals 34 6 10 4
Cincinnati 000 001 011385
San Diego 030 002 10x6101
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Norman  L (0-2) 6.0 6 5 0 3 3
  Tomlin   0.1 3 1 0 0 1
  Borbon   1.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
10
6
0
3
5
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Jones  W (2-1) 5.2 5 1 1 2 1
  D'Acquisto  SV (1) 3.1 3 2 2 2 4
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
4
5

  E–Concepcion 2 (3), Driessen (1), Knight (2), Tomlin (1), Evans (1).  DP–Cincinnati 1, San Diego 1.  3B–Cincinnati Morgan (1,off Jones).  SH–Norman (2,off Jones).  SB–Morgan (4,2nd base off Jones/Tenace).  U-HP–Frank Campagna, 1B–Frank Fisher, 2B–Paul Pryor, 3B–Terry Bovey.  T–2:34.
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