San Francisco Giants vs Cincinnati Reds
May 28, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1981 at Riverfront Stadium. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the San Francisco Giants 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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San Francisco Giants 4, Cincinnati Reds 7

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
North cf 1 2 0 0
Cabell 3b 3 0 1 1
Clark rf 3 1 1 2
May c 4 0 0 0
Herndon lf 4 0 0 0
Bergman 1b 3 1 0 0
Stennett 2b 3 0 1 0
Smith ss 3 0 0 0
Whitson p 2 0 0 0
  Breining p 1 0 0 0
  Lavelle p 0 0 0 0
  Minton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 4 3 3
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Collins rf,cf 5 2 1 0
Griffey cf 3 1 1 0
  Mejias cf,rf 2 1 1 1
Concepcion ss 4 1 1 1
Foster lf 3 1 2 3
Bench 1b 3 0 2 0
  Driessen 1b 1 0 1 1
Knight 3b 5 0 1 0
Oester 2b 2 1 1 0
O'Berry c 3 0 0 0
Berenyi p 2 0 0 0
  Spilman ph 0 0 0 0
  Price p 0 0 0 0
  Biittner ph 0 0 0 0
  Hume p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 11 6
San Francisco 100 011 001431
Cincinnati 200 000 05x7111
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Whitson   5.1 5 2 2 4 2
  Breining   2.0 3 1 1 2 0
  Lavelle  L (0-3) 0.1 1 3 3 2 0
  Minton   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
11
7
7
8
2
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Berenyi   6.0 2 3 3 4 6
  Price  W (4-0) 2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Hume   1.0 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
3
4
4
4
8

  E–Lavelle (1).  DP–San Francisco 1, Cincinnati 1.  2B–Cincinnati Foster (11,off Minton).  HR–San Francisco Clark (6,9th inning off Hume 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Cabell (3,off Berenyi).  SF–Clark (1,off Berenyi).  SB–Collins (12,2nd base off Whitson/May); Griffey (9,3rd base off Whitson/May); Mejias (1,2nd base off Lavelle/May).  U-HP–Jerry Dale, 1B–Paul Runge, 2B–Steve Fields, 3B–Bob Engel.  T–2:48.  A–20,077.
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