Chicago Cubs vs San Francisco Giants
July 20, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 20, 1985 at Candlestick Park. The Chicago Cubs 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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Chicago Cubs 2, San Francisco Giants 1

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Dernier cf 3 0 0 1
Sandberg 2b 4 0 1 0
Lopes lf 4 0 0 0
  Woods lf 0 0 0 0
Moreland rf 3 0 0 0
Durham 1b 4 0 0 0
Cey 3b 3 0 0 0
Davis c 3 1 1 0
Bowa ss 3 1 2 1
Ruthven p 2 0 0 0
  Frazier p 1 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 4 2
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Gladden cf 5 1 1 0
Wellman 2b 4 0 1 1
Davis C. rf 1 0 0 0
Roenicke lf 3 0 1 0
Brown 3b 3 0 0 0
Brenly c 2 0 0 0
Green 1b 4 0 0 0
Uribe ss 3 0 1 0
Hammaker p 1 0 0 0
  Youngblood ph 1 0 0 0
  Garrelts p 0 0 0 0
  Trillo ph 0 0 0 0
  Davis M. p 0 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 4 1
Chicago 000 020 000241
San Francisco 000 010 000140
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Ruthven  W (4-6) 5.0 2 1 1 4 4
  Frazier   2.0 0 0 0 3 0
  Smith  SV (21) 2.0 2 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
8
4
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Hammaker  L (3-9) 5.0 4 2 2 1 6
  Garrelts   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Davis   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
1
8

  E–Cey (13).  DP–Chicago 3.  2B–Chicago Davis (16,off Hammaker).  3B–Chicago Bowa (2,off Hammaker), San Francisco Gladden (6,off Ruthven).  SH–Dernier (3,off Hammaker); Trillo (7,off Frazier).  IBB–Brenly (4,by Smith).  SB–Sandberg (27,2nd base off Hammaker/Brenly); Wellman (3,2nd base off Ruthven/Davis).  WP–Smith (4).  IBB–Smith (6,Brenly).  T–2:46.  A–15,494.
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