Los Angeles Dodgers vs Houston Astros
April 13, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 13, 1980 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros 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 2, Houston Astros 4

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 4 1 3 0
Law cf 4 0 0 0
Smith rf 2 0 1 0
Garvey 1b 4 0 1 1
Baker lf 4 1 1 0
Cey 3b 4 0 1 1
Russell ss 3 0 0 0
Ferguson c 3 0 0 0
  Thomas pr 0 0 0 0
Goltz p 2 0 0 0
  Thomasson ph 1 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
  Johnstone ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Landestoy 2b 4 0 0 0
Reynolds ss 5 0 1 0
Puhl cf 3 1 1 0
Cruz lf 3 1 2 0
Walling 1b 2 1 1 0
Cabell 3b 4 1 3 2
Leonard rf 4 0 2 0
Pujols c 4 0 0 0
Forsch p 3 0 1 2
  LaCorte p 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 11 4
Los Angeles 000 000 110270
Houston 031 000 00x4110
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Goltz  L (0-1) 7.0 10 4 4 3 2
  Hough   1.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
11
4
4
4
4
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Forsch  W (1-0) 7.2 7 2 2 2 4
  LaCorte  SV (1) 1.1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
3
4

  E–None.  DP–Houston 1.  2B–Los Angeles Smith (2,off Forsch); Baker (2,off Forsch), Houston Puhl (2,off Goltz); Leonard (1,off Hough).  HBP–Russell (1,by Forsch).  SH–Puhl (1,off Goltz).  SB–Cabell (2,2nd base off Goltz/Ferguson).  CS–Cruz (1,2nd base by Goltz/Ferguson).  HBP–Forsch (1,Russell).  U-HP–Steve Fields, 1B–Joe West, 2B–Charlie Williams, 3B–Paul Pryor.  T–2:19.  A–33,676.
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