Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giants
September 27, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 27, 1979 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 3, San Francisco Giants 5

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 5 0 1 0
Martinez ss 2 1 1 0
Garvey 1b 2 0 1 1
  Joshua rf 1 0 0 0
Cey 3b 2 0 1 0
  Hatcher 3b 1 0 0 0
Baker lf 2 0 1 1
  Davalillo lf 1 0 0 0
Guerrero rf,1b 4 1 1 1
Yeager c 2 0 0 0
Thomasson cf 4 0 1 0
Hannahs p 2 1 1 0
  Ferguson ph 1 0 0 0
  Beckwith p 0 0 0 0
  Russell ph 0 0 0 0
  Patterson pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 8 3
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
North cf 4 1 2 0
Strain 2b 4 0 1 1
Ivie lf 2 2 1 2
McCovey 1b 3 1 0 0
Evans 3b 2 0 0 0
Herndon rf 4 0 0 0
LeMaster ss 3 0 1 1
Littlejohn c 3 1 1 0
Blue p 4 0 0 0
  Minton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 5 6 4
Los Angeles 001 011 000383
San Francisco 201 110 00x560
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Hannahs  L (0-2) 5.0 4 5 3 6 0
  Beckwith   3.0 2 0 0 2 5
Totals
8.0
6
5
3
8
5
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Blue  W (14-14) 8.1 8 3 3 5 5
  Minton  SV (4) 0.2 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
6
6

  E–Martinez (5), Guerrero (1), Yeager (9).  DP–San Francisco 3.  2B–Los Angeles Thomasson (11,off Blue).  HR–Los Angeles Guerrero (2,6th inning off Blue 0 on, 0 out), San Francisco Ivie (27,1st inning off Hannahs 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Martinez (1,off Blue).  SF–Garvey (6,off Blue); Strain (1,off Hannahs).  CS–Thomasson (2,2nd base by Blue/Littlejohn); Patterson (1,2nd base by Minton/Littlejohn); North (23,2nd base by Beckwith/Yeager).  SB–North (58,2nd base off Hannahs/Yeager).  WP–Hannahs (1).  U-HP–Fred Brocklander, 1B–Paul Runge, 2B–John McSherry, 3B–Steve Fields.  T–2:24.  A–8,381.
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