New York Mets vs Houston Astros
May 21, 1982 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 21, 1982 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros 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)
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New York Mets 1, Houston Astros 5

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 4 0 2 1
Stearns c 4 0 0 0
Foster lf 4 0 1 0
Kingman 1b 3 0 0 0
Youngblood rf 3 0 0 0
Brooks 3b 4 0 2 0
Backman 2b 3 0 0 0
Gardenhire ss 3 1 2 0
Scott p 2 0 0 0
  Lynch p 0 0 0 0
  Jorgensen ph 1 0 0 0
  Orosco p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 7 1
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Puhl rf 4 2 2 0
Scott cf 3 0 1 1
  Loucks cf 0 0 0 0
Knight 3b 4 0 0 0
Cruz lf 4 1 2 1
Heep 1b 2 1 1 0
  LaCorte p 0 0 0 0
Garner 2b 4 1 2 1
Ashby c 3 0 1 2
Reynolds ss 3 0 1 0
Sutton p 3 0 0 0
  Walling 1b 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 10 5
New York 001 000 000170
Houston 011 111 00x5101
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Scott  L (3-3) 5.0 9 4 4 1 2
  Lynch   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Orosco   2.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
2
4
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Sutton  W (7-1) 8.0 6 1 1 3 7
  LaCorte   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
3
7

  E–Knight (6).  DP–New York 1, Houston 2.  2B–New York Wilson (6,off Sutton), Houston Heep (2,off Scott); Garner (13,off Scott); Puhl (5,off Scott); Cruz (9,off Scott).  3B–Houston Garner (3,off Lynch).  SH–Scott (2,off Scott).  SF–Ashby (1,off Lynch).  SB–Gardenhire (1,2nd base off Sutton/Ashby); Cruz (7,2nd base off Scott/Stearns).  CS–Youngblood (3,2nd base by Sutton/Ashby).  U-HP–Bob Engel, 1B–Fred Brocklander, 2B–Paul Runge, 3B–Eric Gregg.  T–2:27.  A–22,383.
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