San Diego Padres vs Houston Astros
September 20, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 20, 1986 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros defeated the San Diego Padres 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 Diego Padres 6, Houston Astros 10

San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Flannery 2b,ss 5 0 1 1
Gwynn rf 5 2 4 1
Kruk lf 4 0 0 0
McReynolds cf 4 1 3 3
Garvey 1b 4 0 0 0
Santiago c 4 2 2 1
Nettles 3b 4 1 1 0
Green ss 2 0 0 0
  Iorg ph 1 0 0 0
  Roberts 2b 0 0 0 0
  Kennedy ph 1 0 0 0
Hayward p 1 0 0 0
  Whitson p 0 0 0 0
  Parent ph 1 0 0 0
  Hoyt p 0 0 0 0
  Wynne ph 1 0 0 0
  Booker p 0 0 0 0
  Martinez ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 11 6
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Hatcher cf,lf,cf 5 3 3 0
Doran 2b 5 3 2 2
Garner 3b 5 0 1 0
Davis 1b 4 0 2 2
  Walker pr,cf 0 1 0 0
  Puhl ph,lf 1 0 1 1
Bass rf 5 1 3 1
Cruz lf 4 1 2 3
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Ashby c 4 0 1 0
Thon ss 3 0 0 0
Scott p 3 1 1 0
  Driessen ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Totals 40 10 16 9
San Diego 210 000 0126111
Houston 330 000 22x10161
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Hayward  L (0-1) 1.1 7 6 6 0 0
  Whitson   2.2 3 0 0 0 4
  Hoyt   3.0 4 2 2 1 3
  Booker   1.0 2 2 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
16
10
8
1
7
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Scott  W (17-10) 7.0 5 3 3 0 11
  Lopez   2.0 6 3 3 1 2
Totals
9.0
11
6
6
1
13

  E–Booker (1), Doran (15).  DP–San Diego 1.  PB–Santiago (3).  2B–San Diego Gwynn (30,off Lopez), Houston Doran (26,off Hayward); Garner (14,off Whitson); Bass (31,off Hoyt).  3B–San Diego McReynolds (5,off Scott).  HR–San Diego McReynolds (22,1st inning off Scott 1 on, 2 out); Santiago (2,2nd inning off Scott 0 on, 0 out), Houston Cruz (10,7th inning off Hoyt 1 on, 1 out).  IBB–Thon (5,by Hoyt).  SB–Gwynn 5 (31,2nd base off Scott/Ashby 2,3rd base off Scott/Ashby 2,3rd base off Lopez/Ashby); Walker (11,2nd base off Hoyt/Santiago).  WP–Hayward (1).  IBB–Hoyt (6,Thon).  U-HP–Frank Pulli, 1B–Joe West, 2B–John McSherry, 3B–Bill Williams.  T–2:33.  A–36,878.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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."