New York Mets vs Cincinnati Reds
August 23, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 23, 1981 at Riverfront Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the Cincinnati Reds 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 3, Cincinnati Reds 2

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 4 1 1 0
Taveras ss 3 0 0 0
Brooks 3b 4 0 1 1
Kingman lf,1b 3 0 0 0
Valentine rf 4 0 0 0
Staub 1b 4 0 1 0
  Trevino pr,2b 0 1 0 0
Stearns c 4 0 2 0
Flynn 2b 2 0 0 0
  Cubbage ph 1 1 1 0
  Bailor 2b,lf 0 0 0 1
Lynch p 2 0 0 0
  Leach p 0 0 0 0
  Jorgensen ph 0 0 0 1
  Allen p 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 6 3
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Collins rf 5 0 2 0
Griffey cf 4 0 2 0
Concepcion ss 3 1 0 0
Foster lf 5 0 1 1
Nolan c 4 0 0 0
  O'Berry c 0 0 0 0
Knight 3b 3 0 1 0
Driessen 1b 4 0 0 0
Oester 2b 4 1 1 0
Seaver p 3 0 1 1
  Biittner ph 1 0 0 0
  Hume p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 2 8 2
New York 100 000 010 1362
Cincinnati 000 110 000 0281
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Lynch   4.2 6 2 1 0 2
  Leach   2.1 0 0 0 2 2
  Allen  W (5-3) 3.0 2 0 0 2 2
Totals
10.0
8
2
1
4
6
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Seaver   9.0 4 2 2 1 2
  Hume  L (6-3) 1.0 2 1 1 0 1
Totals
10.0
6
3
3
1
3

  E–Brooks (15), Valentine (2), Knight (9).  DP–New York 2.  2B–New York Brooks (12,off Seaver), Cincinnati Oester (13,off Lynch); Collins (14,off Lynch).  3B–New York Cubbage (1,off Seaver).  SH–Taveras (3,off Seaver).  SF–Jorgensen (3,off Seaver); Bailor (1,off Hume).  IBB–Griffey (1,by Leach).  SB–Wilson (18,2nd base off Seaver/Nolan); Stearns (7,2nd base off Seaver/Nolan); Griffey (11,2nd base off Allen/Stearns).  IBB–Leach (1,Griffey).  U-HP–Fred Brocklander, 1B–Paul Pryor, 2B–Dave Pallone, 3B–John McSherry.  T–2:38.  A–20,761.
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