New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs
June 29, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 29, 1986 at Wrigley Field. The New York Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs 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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New York Mets 7, Chicago Cubs 4

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Dykstra cf 4 0 0 0
Backman 2b 4 2 3 0
Hernandez 1b 5 1 1 0
Strawberry rf 4 2 3 3
  Wilson pr,rf 0 1 0 0
Carter c 4 0 2 2
Foster lf 4 1 1 1
Knight 3b 4 0 2 1
Santana ss 4 0 1 0
Gooden p 4 0 0 0
Totals 37 7 13 7
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 3b 4 0 1 1
Martinez cf 5 1 1 0
Sandberg 2b 5 1 1 1
Moreland rf 4 1 1 1
Durham 1b 4 0 0 0
Davis c 4 0 2 1
Matthews lf 1 0 0 0
  Gumpert p 0 0 0 0
  Speier ph 1 0 1 0
Dunston ss 4 1 0 0
Sutcliffe p 2 0 1 0
  Fontenot p 0 0 0 0
  Bosley lf 2 0 2 0
Totals 36 4 10 4
New York 000 121 2017131
Chicago 000 300 0014100
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Gooden  W (9-3) 9.0 10 4 4 3 6
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
3
6
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Sutcliffe  L (4-10) 6.0 8 5 5 5 4
  Fontenot   0.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Gumpert   3.0 3 1 1 1 1
Totals
9.0
13
7
7
6
5

  E–Knight (4).  DP–New York 1.  2B–New York Santana (4,off Sutcliffe), Chicago Sandberg (15,off Gooden); Moreland (12,off Gooden).  HR–New York Strawberry (10,5th inning off Sutcliffe 1 on, 2 out); Foster (13,6th inning off Sutcliffe 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–Knight (2,by Gumpert).  SB–Strawberry 2 (16,2nd base off Sutcliffe/J Davis,2nd base off Gumpert/J Davis); Knight (1,2nd base off Sutcliffe/J Davis); Lopes (12,2nd base off Gooden/Carter).  CS–Dykstra (3,2nd base by Sutcliffe/J Davis).  IBB–Gumpert (1,Knight).  U-HP–Bruce Froemming, 1B–Randy Marsh, 2B–Bob Davidson, 3B–John Kibler.  T–3:32.  A–34,222.
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