San Francisco Giants vs Chicago Cubs
June 9, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 9, 1981 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

San Francisco Giants 1, Chicago Cubs 2

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
North cf 3 0 0 0
Cabell 3b 4 0 1 0
Morgan 2b 4 0 2 0
Evans 1b 4 1 0 0
Herndon rf 3 0 1 1
Martin lf 3 0 0 0
May c 3 0 1 0
  Sadek pr,c 0 0 0 0
LeMaster ss 3 0 0 0
Ripley p 1 0 0 0
  Stennett ph 1 0 0 0
  Breining p 0 0 0 0
  Bergman ph 1 0 0 0
  Minton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
DeJesus ss 4 0 1 0
Dillard 2b 4 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 3 0 0 0
Morales rf,cf 3 1 2 1
Lum lf 3 0 0 0
Waller cf,3b 3 0 0 0
Reitz 3b 3 0 1 1
  Tidrow p 0 0 0 0
Davis c 3 0 0 0
Krukow p 2 1 1 0
  Eastwick p 0 0 0 0
  Lezcano rf 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 5 2
San Francisco 000 000 100150
Chicago 011 000 00x251
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Ripley  L (4-4) 5.0 4 2 2 1 2
  Breining   2.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Minton   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
5
2
2
1
2
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Krukow  W (3-6) 5.0 1 0 0 0 7
  Eastwick   2.0 3 1 1 1 0
  Tidrow  SV (5) 2.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
1
8

  E–Dillard (3).  DP–Chicago 1.  PB–May (4).  2B–Chicago Morales (3,off Ripley).  3B–San Francisco Herndon (5,off Eastwick).  IBB–Buckner (5,by Ripley).  CS–North (8,2nd base by Eastwick/Davis).  BK–Minton (2).  IBB–Ripley (1,Buckner).  U-HP–Joe West, 1B–Steve Fields, 2B–Bruce Froemming, 3B–John Kibler.  T–2:01.  A–4,735.
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