New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs
August 12, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 12, 1981 at Wrigley Field. The New York Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs 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 7, Chicago Cubs 4

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 3 0 1 0
Taveras ss 5 0 1 0
Youngblood lf 3 0 1 1
Kingman 1b 3 1 2 0
Valentine rf 5 1 1 1
Brooks 3b 4 3 3 2
Stearns c 4 0 0 0
Flynn 2b 2 0 0 0
  Staub ph 1 0 1 0
  Trevino pr,2b 2 1 1 1
Lynch p 1 0 0 0
  Cubbage ph 0 0 0 0
  Mazzilli ph 1 1 1 2
  Leach p 0 0 0 0
  Jorgensen ph 1 0 0 0
  Allen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 7 12 7
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
DeJesus ss 4 1 1 0
Henderson lf 4 0 1 0
  Tidrow p 0 0 0 0
  Morales rf 1 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 3 0 0 0
Bonds cf 3 1 1 1
Cruz rf,3b 4 0 0 0
Davis c 4 0 1 0
Reitz 3b 3 0 1 0
  Waller pr,3b,2b 1 1 0 0
Dillard 2b 4 0 0 0
  Eastwick p 0 0 0 0
Kravec p 1 0 0 0
  Caudill p 1 0 0 0
  Capilla p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
  Lum ph,lf 2 1 1 2
Totals 35 4 6 3
New York 000 010 300 37121
Chicago 010 001 200 0461
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Lynch   6.0 3 2 2 2 4
  Leach   1.0 3 2 2 1 1
  Allen  W (4-3) 3.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
10.0
6
4
4
3
7
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Kravec   5.0 3 1 1 3 4
  Caudill   1.1 3 2 2 1 0
  Capilla   0.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Smith   0.2 1 0 0 2 0
  Tidrow  L (2-5) 2.0 3 3 2 1 0
  Eastwick   1.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
10.0
12
7
6
8
4

  E–Lynch (1), Davis (3).  DP–Chicago 2.  PB–Davis (3).  2B–New York Mazzilli (6,off Capilla).  3B–New York Kingman (1,off Tidrow); Valentine (1,off Tidrow).  HR–New York Brooks (1,5th inning off Kravec 0 on, 0 out), Chicago Bonds (1,2nd inning off Lynch 0 on, 0 out); Lum (2,7th inning off Leach 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Stearns (3,off Tidrow); Allen (2,off Eastwick).  SF–Youngblood (4,off Smith).  HBP–Youngblood (2,by Kravec).  IBB–Wilson 2 (2,by Smith,by Eastwick); Kingman (3,by Smith); Buckner (6,by Lynch); Bonds (1,by Lynch).  CS–Wilson 2 (6,2nd base by Kravec/Davis 2); Davis (1,3rd base by Leach/Stearns).  SB–DeJesus (16,2nd base off Leach/Stearns).  WP–Capilla (4).  BK–Lynch (1).  HBP–Kravec (3,Youngblood).  IBB–Lynch 2 (2,Buckner,Bonds); Smith 2 (6,Wilson,Kingman); Eastwick (3,Wilson).  U-HP–Bruce Froemming, 1B–Joe West, 2B–John Kibler, 3B–Dick Stello.  T–2:58.  A–8,372.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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