San Francisco Giants vs Houston Astros
September 18, 1984 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 18, 1984 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

San Francisco Giants 4, Houston Astros 5

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Gladden cf 4 2 3 0
Wellman 2b 5 0 1 1
Davis rf 4 1 1 2
Baker lf 4 0 1 0
  Garrelts p 0 0 0 0
Brenly c 4 0 0 0
Thompson 1b 4 0 1 1
LeMaster ss 4 0 1 0
Mullins 3b 4 0 0 0
Riley p 3 1 1 0
  Minton p 1 0 0 0
  Lavelle p 0 0 0 0
  Youngblood lf 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 4 9 4
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Doran 2b 4 1 1 0
Bass cf,rf 4 2 3 0
Garner 3b 5 0 3 1
Cruz lf 5 0 1 2
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Davis 1b 5 0 1 1
Puhl rf,lf 4 1 0 0
Bailey c 4 0 1 0
Pena ss 3 0 1 0
  Reynolds ph,ss 2 0 1 1
LaCoss p 0 0 0 0
  Madden p 0 0 0 0
  Sambito p 1 0 0 0
  Richardt ph 1 0 0 0
  Solano p 0 0 0 0
  Cabell ph 1 0 0 0
  Calhoun p 0 0 0 0
  Mumphrey ph,cf 1 1 1 0
Totals 40 5 13 5
San Francisco 220 000 000 0490
Houston 101 000 101 15130
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Riley   6.1 8 3 3 1 1
  Minton   1.2 2 1 1 0 1
  Lavelle   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Garrelts  L (1-2) 0.1 2 1 1 1 1
Totals
9.1
13
5
5
2
3
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
LaCoss   0.1 3 2 2 1 0
  Madden   0.2 1 1 1 1 1
  Sambito   3.0 3 1 1 1 1
  Solano   3.0 1 0 0 1 4
  Calhoun   2.0 1 0 0 0 3
  Smith  W (5-3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.0
9
4
4
4
9

  E–None.  DP–Houston 1.  2B–San Francisco Gladden 2 (16,off Sambito,off Calhoun), Houston Davis (4,off Riley).  3B–Houston Garner (5,off Lavelle).  SF–C Davis (2,off Sambito).  SH–Doran (7,off Lavelle).  HBP–Bass (3,by Riley).  SB–Thompson (4,2nd base off Solano/Bailey); Gladden (26,3rd base off Calhoun/Bailey); Cruz (20,2nd base off Minton/Brenly).  WP–LaCoss (8).  HBP–Riley (2,Bass).  T–3:19.  A–7,009.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook