Los Angeles Dodgers vs New York Mets
May 28, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1986 at Shea Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 2, New York Mets 4

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Sax 2b 4 1 1 1
Landreaux cf 4 0 0 0
Madlock 3b 4 0 1 0
Marshall rf 4 0 1 0
Scioscia c 4 0 1 0
Brock 1b 3 0 0 0
Stubbs lf 3 0 0 0
Duncan ss 2 1 1 1
Reuss p 2 0 0 0
  Vande Berg p 0 0 0 0
  Niedenfuer p 0 0 0 0
  Matuszek ph 1 0 0 0
  Howell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf,lf 4 1 1 0
Mitchell rf 3 1 1 2
Hernandez 1b 4 1 2 0
Carter c 3 1 1 1
Foster lf 3 0 0 0
  Dykstra cf 0 0 0 0
Knight 3b 4 0 2 1
Teufel 2b 2 0 0 0
  Heep ph 1 0 0 0
  Backman 2b 0 0 0 0
Santana ss 3 0 0 0
Gooden p 3 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 7 4
Los Angeles 000 001 010251
New York 000 103 00x470
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Reuss  L (2-4) 5.0 4 2 2 0 3
  Vande Berg   0.1 3 2 2 1 0
  Niedenfuer   1.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Howell   1.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
8.0
7
4
4
3
3
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Gooden  W (6-2) 9.0 5 2 2 2 10
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
2
10

  E–Vande Berg (1).  DP–Los Angeles 1, New York 1.  2B–Los Angeles Scioscia (7,off Gooden), New York Knight (11,off Reuss); Wilson (2,off Reuss).  HR–Los Angeles Duncan (3,6th inning off Gooden 0 on, 0 out); Sax (4,8th inning off Gooden 0 on, 2 out), New York Carter (8,4th inning off Reuss 0 on, 2 out); K Mitchell (2,6th inning off Vande Berg 1 on, 0 out).  U-HP–Joe West, 1B–Bill Williams, 2B–Steve Rippley, 3B–Frank Pulli.  T–2:40.  A–41,032.
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