Montreal Expos vs San Francisco Giants
May 17, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1981 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Montreal Expos 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Montreal Expos 4, San Francisco Giants 5

Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Raines lf 5 1 2 0
Scott 2b 6 0 0 0
Dawson cf 5 1 1 1
Carter c 3 0 0 0
Cromartie rf 5 1 2 1
Montanez 1b 5 1 2 1
Parrish 3b 5 0 1 1
Speier ss 4 0 0 0
  Wallach ph 0 0 0 0
  Phillips ss 0 0 0 0
Burris p 2 0 0 0
  White ph 1 0 0 0
  Bahnsen p 0 0 0 0
  Fryman p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  Lee p 1 0 0 0
  Ratzer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 43 4 8 4
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Cabell 1b 6 0 2 0
Morgan 2b 5 1 1 0
Clark rf 6 0 1 1
Evans 3b 3 0 0 0
Herndon lf 4 1 1 1
Martin cf 5 1 1 0
May c 3 1 1 0
  Pettini pr,ss 1 0 0 0
LeMaster ss 3 0 0 0
  Wohlford ph 1 0 1 1
  Sadek c 0 1 0 0
Alexander p 2 0 0 0
  Lavelle p 1 0 0 0
  North ph 1 0 0 0
  Holland p 0 0 0 0
  Stennett ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 42 5 8 3
Montreal 000 000 220 000481
San Francisco 000 021 001 001582
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Burris   7.0 4 3 1 2 2
  Bahnsen   1.2 1 1 1 2 0
  Fryman   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Lee  L (1-2) 2.1 2 1 1 2 0
  Ratzer   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
11.1
8
5
3
6
2
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Alexander   6.2 5 2 2 1 2
  Lavelle   2.1 3 2 2 1 1
  Holland  W (2-1) 3.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
12.0
8
4
4
4
3

  E–Parrish (7), May (1), Pettini (1).  DP–San Francisco 1.  2B–Montreal Raines (5,off Alexander); Cromartie (4,off Alexander); Parrish (6,off Alexander), San Francisco Morgan (5,off Burris).  IBB–Carter (3,by Lavelle); Evans (1,by Burris).  SB–Raines (33,2nd base off Lavelle/May).  CS–Cromartie (1,2nd base by Lavelle/May); Evans (3,3rd base by Burris/Carter).  WP–Burris (3).  BK–Lavelle (1).  IBB–Burris (1,Evans); Lavelle (1,Carter).  U-HP–Joe West, 1B–Jim Quick, 2B–Bruce Froemming, 3B–John Kibler.  T–3:28.  A–27,975.
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