Houston Astros vs San Francisco Giants
June 26, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 26, 1987 at Candlestick Park. 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

Houston Astros 9, San Francisco Giants 6

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Hatcher cf 5 0 2 0
Doran 2b 4 1 2 1
Walling 3b 5 1 1 2
Davis 1b 5 0 0 0
Bass rf 3 1 1 0
Cruz lf 4 2 3 0
Reynolds C. ss 3 2 2 5
Reynolds R. c 4 1 1 0
  Andersen p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Knepper p 2 0 0 0
  Ashby c 1 1 1 1
Totals 36 9 13 9
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Thompson 2b 3 4 3 1
Speier ss 5 0 2 1
Youngblood lf 3 0 1 1
  Spilman ph 0 0 0 0
  Milner pr,cf 1 0 0 0
Maldonado rf 3 1 1 2
Davis cf 4 0 0 0
  Robinson p 0 0 0 0
Brown 3b 4 0 1 0
Clark 1b 4 0 0 0
Melvin c 3 0 0 0
  Aldrete ph 1 0 0 0
LaCoss p 2 0 0 0
  Comstock p 0 0 0 0
  Leonard ph,lf 2 1 1 1
Totals 35 6 9 6
Houston 020 013 0039130
San Francisco 101 000 121690
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Knepper  W (3-8) 7.0 6 4 4 1 3
  Andersen   0.0 2 1 1 1 0
  Smith  SV (14) 2.0 1 1 1 1 3
Totals
9.0
9
6
6
3
6
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
LaCoss  L (6-4) 6.0 8 6 6 1 4
  Comstock   2.0 2 0 0 2 2
  Robinson   1.0 3 3 3 0 0
Totals
9.0
13
9
9
3
6

  E–None.  DP–Houston 1.  2B–Houston Hatcher (16,off Comstock); Doran (9,off J Robinson), San Francisco Thompson (11,off Knepper); Speier (7,off Smith).  HR–Houston C Reynolds 2 (2,2nd inning off LaCoss 1 on, 2 out,6th inning off LaCoss 2 on, 1 out); Ashby (5,9th inning off J Robinson 0 on, 0 out); Walling (3,9th inning off J Robinson 1 on, 1 out), San Francisco Thompson (7,3rd inning off Knepper 0 on, 1 out); Maldonado (12,7th inning off Knepper 0 on, 0 out); Leonard (14,8th inning off Knepper 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Knepper (5,off LaCoss).  SF–Doran (4,off LaCoss).  HBP–Maldonado (5,by Smith).  CS–Bass (7,2nd base by Comstock/Melvin).  HBP–Smith (1,Maldonado).  U-HP–Gerry Davis, 1B–Dick Stello, 2B–Eric Gregg, 3B–Doug Harvey.  T–3:04.  A–17,110.
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