New York Mets vs San Francisco Giants
May 19, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 19, 1981 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the New York Mets 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

New York Mets 1, San Francisco Giants 4

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Mazzilli cf 4 0 2 0
Backman 2b 4 0 2 0
Youngblood rf 4 0 0 1
Kingman lf 4 0 1 0
Jorgensen 1b 3 0 0 0
  Trevino ph,c 1 0 0 0
Stearns c,1b 4 0 1 0
Brooks 3b 3 0 1 0
Flynn ss 2 0 1 0
Scott p 2 1 0 0
  Staub ph 1 0 0 0
  Hausman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 8 1
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Morgan 2b 4 1 2 0
  Pettini 2b 0 0 0 0
Cabell 1b 4 0 0 0
  Bergman 1b 0 0 0 0
Clark rf 4 0 1 0
Evans 3b 4 0 1 1
Herndon lf 4 1 1 0
Martin cf 3 1 2 0
May c 3 0 1 1
  Sadek pr,c 0 1 0 0
LeMaster ss 3 0 1 1
Breining p 1 0 0 0
  Holland p 1 0 0 1
  Minton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 9 4
New York 000 010 000180
San Francisco 010 001 20x490
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Scott  L (1-4) 7.0 8 4 4 0 4
  Hausman   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
4
4
0
5
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Breining   4.1 4 1 1 4 5
  Holland  W (3-1) 4.0 4 0 0 2 3
  Minton  SV (8) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
6
8

  E–None.  DP–New York 1, San Francisco 1.  2B–San Francisco May (7,off Scott).  3B–San Francisco Martin (2,off Scott).  SF–Youngblood (2,off Holland).  IBB–Flynn 2 (4,by Breining,by Holland).  SH–Holland (2,off Scott).  SB–Mazzilli (6,2nd base off Breining/May); Brooks (2,2nd base off Holland/May); Morgan (5,2nd base off Scott/Stearns).  CS–Cabell (6,2nd base by Scott/Stearns).  BK–Breining (2).  IBB–Breining (4,Flynn); Holland (2,Flynn).  U–Dutch Rennert, Ed Montague, Lee Weyer.  T–2:38.  A–5,168.
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