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New York Mets vs Houston Astros
September 2, 1979 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 2, 1979 at Astrodome. The New York Mets defeated the Houston Astros and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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"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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| Game played on Sunday, September 2, 1979 at Astrodome |
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| New York |
0 | 0 | 3 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 5 | 8 | 1 |
| Houston |
1 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 2 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 4 | 9 | 2 |
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| New York Mets |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Kobel W (6-8) |
6.0 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
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Hassler |
2.0 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
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Allen SV (6) |
1.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
9 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
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| Houston Astros |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Andujar |
5.0 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
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Niemann L (3-2) |
2.0 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Ladd |
2.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
8 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
E–Taveras (22), Leonard (8), Andujar (3). DP–New York 1. 2B–New York Stearns (24,off Niemann), Houston Cabell 2 (21,off Kobel 2); Walling (4,off Kobel). 3B–Houston Landestoy (3,off Kobel). SH–Kobel (6,off Andujar); Taveras (9,off Niemann). SF–Cruz (5,off Kobel). IBB–Leonard (3,by Kobel). SB–Maddox (2,2nd base off Ladd/Bochy); Leonard (15,2nd base off Kobel/Hodges). WP–Andujar (4). IBB–Kobel (2,Leonard). U-HP–Harry Wendelstedt, 1B–Ed Montague, 2B–Lee Weyer, 3B–Dutch Rennert. T–2:43. A–14,215. |
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| Game played on Sunday, September 2, 1979 at Astrodome |
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Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."
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