Atlanta Braves vs Los Angeles Dodgers
May 31, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 1980 at Dodger Stadium. The Atlanta Braves 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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Atlanta Braves 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 5

Atlanta Braves ab   r   h rbi
Blanks 2b 4 1 1 0
Murphy cf 5 1 3 0
Chambliss 1b 4 1 2 0
Matthews rf 5 1 1 1
Horner 3b 4 1 1 1
  Asselstine lf 0 0 0 0
Burroughs lf 5 0 3 0
  Ruiz pr,3b 0 0 0 0
Nahorodny c 4 1 2 1
Gomez ss 4 0 2 3
Boggs p 4 0 1 0
  Bradford p 1 0 0 0
  Garber p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 6 16 6
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 4 1 2 1
Thomas cf 3 0 0 0
  Thomasson ph,cf 1 0 1 1
Smith rf 5 0 1 2
Garvey 1b 5 1 2 1
Baker lf 4 0 0 0
Cey 3b 4 0 0 0
Russell ss 4 1 2 0
Ferguson c 3 1 0 0
Reuss p 1 0 0 0
  Monday ph 0 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
  Johnstone ph 1 0 0 0
  Beckwith p 0 0 0 0
  Castillo p 0 0 0 0
  Guerrero ph 1 1 1 0
Totals 36 5 9 5
Atlanta 200 120 0016160
Los Angeles 000 001 202592
  Atlanta Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Boggs  W (2-1) 6.2 6 3 3 3 4
  Bradford   2.0 3 2 2 1 2
  Garber  SV (2) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
5
5
4
6
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Reuss  L (6-1) 5.0 12 5 5 0 1
  Hough   2.0 3 0 0 0 1
  Beckwith   1.1 1 1 0 2 2
  Castillo   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
16
6
5
2
4

  E–Lopes (2), Cey (3).  DP–Los Angeles 3.  2B–Atlanta Nahorodny (2,off Reuss); Murphy (8,off Reuss), Los Angeles Russell (6,off Boggs).  HR–Atlanta Nahorodny (1,4th inning off Reuss 0 on, 1 out), Los Angeles Garvey (10,6th inning off Boggs 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Chambliss (1,off Reuss).  SF–Horner (1,off Reuss).  HBP–Nahorodny (1,by Beckwith).  SB–Lopes (6,2nd base off Boggs/Nahorodny).  WP–Reuss (1).  HBP–Beckwith (1,Nahorodny).  U-HP–Paul Runge, 1B–Jim Quick, 2B–Jerry Dale, 3B–Bob Engel.  T–2:38.  A–40,161.
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