Montreal Expos vs Los Angeles Dodgers
July 20, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 20, 1979 at Dodger Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Montreal Expos and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Montreal Expos 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 6

Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Cromartie lf 4 0 1 0
Scott ss 5 1 5 2
Dawson cf 5 0 0 0
Perez 1b 4 1 1 1
Carter c 5 0 2 1
Valentine rf 5 0 0 0
Parrish 3b 5 0 3 1
Bernazard 2b 4 0 1 0
Rogers p 2 1 1 0
  Cash ph 1 1 1 0
  Sosa p 0 0 0 0
  Hutton ph 0 0 0 0
  Macha ph 1 0 0 0
  Bahnsen p 0 0 0 0
  White ph 0 1 0 0
  Fryman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 5 15 5
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 4 1 0 0
Russell ss 5 1 1 2
Smith cf 0 0 0 0
  Thomasson cf 1 0 0 0
  Thomas pr,cf 0 2 0 0
Garvey 1b 4 1 3 3
Cey 3b 3 0 0 1
Baker lf 5 0 0 0
Ferguson rf 3 0 0 0
Yeager c 4 0 0 0
Sutcliffe p 3 0 0 0
  Forster p 0 0 0 0
  Joshua ph 1 0 0 0
  LaGrow p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Mota ph 1 0 1 0
  Martinez pr 0 1 0 0
Totals 34 6 5 6
Montreal 000 001 010 215150
Los Angeles 000 010 100 22651
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Rogers   7.0 2 2 2 9 7
  Sosa   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Bahnsen   2.0 1 2 2 2 2
  Fryman  L (2-5) 0.1 2 2 2 0 0
Totals
10.1
5
6
6
11
10
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Sutcliffe   8.1 11 2 2 1 4
  Forster   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  LaGrow   1.0 3 3 3 2 1
  Patterson  W (1-0) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
11.0
15
5
5
3
7

  E–Russell (19).  DP–Los Angeles 1.  HR–Los Angeles Garvey (15,10th inning off Bahnsen 1 on, 0 out); Russell (6,11th inning off Fryman 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Scott (7,off Sutcliffe); Cromartie 2 (4,off Sutcliffe,off Patterson); Dawson (6,off LaGrow); Russell (5,off Rogers); Lopes (2,off Fryman).  SF–Perez (4,off Sutcliffe).  IBB–Perez (3,by LaGrow); Yeager (6,by Rogers).  CS–Scott 2 (9,2nd base by Sutcliffe/Yeager 2).  IBB–Rogers (3,Yeager); LaGrow (2,Perez).  U-HP–Lanny Harris, 1B–Dutch Rennert, 2B–Ed Montague, 3B–Lee Weyer.  T–3:43.  A–48,825.
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