New York Mets vs Los Angeles Dodgers
May 12, 1984 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 12, 1984 at Dodger Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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New York Mets 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 3

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Backman 2b 5 1 2 0
Oquendo ss 3 0 1 0
  Sisk p 1 0 0 0
Hernandez 1b 3 0 0 1
Foster lf 5 1 1 1
Strawberry rf 4 0 0 0
Wilson cf 4 1 2 0
Brooks 3b 4 1 2 0
Fitzgerald c 4 0 2 1
Lynch p 3 0 1 1
  Gardenhire ss 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 4 11 4
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Sax 2b 4 1 2 0
Whitfield rf 4 1 1 0
Landreaux cf 4 0 1 0
Marshall lf 0 0 0 0
  Stubbs ph,lf,1b 4 0 1 1
Guerrero 3b 4 1 2 1
Monday 1b 4 0 2 0
  Landestoy pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Bailor ss 3 0 0 0
Fimple c 2 0 0 0
  Yeager ph 1 0 0 0
Pena p 1 0 0 0
  Valenzuela ph 1 0 0 0
  Hershiser p 0 0 0 0
  Morales ph 1 0 0 0
  Zachry p 0 0 0 0
  Maldonado ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 9 2
New York 111 100 0004110
Los Angeles 101 001 000391
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Lynch  W (4-0) 5.0 8 3 3 1 2
  Sisk  SV (3) 4.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
2
4
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Pena  L (4-2) 4.0 8 4 4 1 1
  Hershiser   2.0 3 0 0 1 1
  Zachry   3.0 0 0 0 0 4
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
2
6

  E–Fimple (1).  DP–New York 1.  2B–New York Wilson (4,off Pena), Los Angeles Whitfield (5,off Lynch); Stubbs (1,off Lynch); Sax (10,off Lynch).  HR–New York Foster (5,3rd inning off Pena 0 on, 1 out).  SF–Hernandez (2,off Pena).  SB–Oquendo (4,2nd base off Pena/Fimple).  CS–Landestoy (1,2nd base by Sisk/Fitzgerald).  WP–Hershiser (2).  T–2:56.  A–44,865.
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