San Francisco Giants vs Houston Astros
July 31, 1982 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 31, 1982 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros 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 0, Houston Astros 5

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Venable cf 5 0 2 0
Kuiper 2b 3 0 1 0
  Barr p 0 0 0 0
Bergman 1b 4 0 0 0
Clark rf 4 0 1 0
Evans ss 3 0 2 0
Summers lf 3 0 0 0
O'Malley 3b 4 0 1 0
Brenly c 2 0 0 0
  May ph 1 0 0 0
Hammaker p 1 0 0 0
  Morgan ph,2b 2 0 1 0
Totals 32 0 8 0
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Thon ss 4 1 1 0
Scott cf 4 1 1 1
Knight 1b 4 0 0 0
Cruz lf 4 0 2 1
Garner 2b 3 1 0 0
Howe 3b 2 0 0 0
Puhl rf 2 1 0 0
Knicely c 3 1 1 3
LaCoss p 1 0 0 0
  LaCorte p 1 0 0 0
Totals 28 5 5 5
San Francisco 000 000 000082
Houston 100 100 30x552
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Hammaker  L (8-6) 6.0 3 2 1 0 2
  Barr   2.0 2 3 3 2 1
Totals
8.0
5
5
4
2
3
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
LaCoss  W (4-3) 5.2 5 0 0 4 4
  LaCorte  SV (4) 3.1 3 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
8
0
0
4
7

  E–LaCoss 2 (3).  DP–San Francisco 1, Houston 2.  2B–Houston Thon (16,off Hammaker).  3B–San Francisco Morgan (1,off LaCorte).  HR–Houston Knicely (2,7th inning off Barr 2 on, 1 out).  SH–Hammaker (1,off LaCoss); LaCoss (1,off Hammaker); Howe (2,off Barr).  IBB–Puhl (1,by Barr).  SB–Thon (18,3rd base off Hammaker/Brenly).  WP–Hammaker (1).  IBB–Barr (4,Puhl).  U-HP–Jerry Dale, 1B–Bob Engel, 2B–Paul Runge, 3B–Bob Davidson.  T–2:10.  A–28,190.
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