San Francisco Giants vs Los Angeles Dodgers
April 5, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 5, 1988 at Dodger Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers 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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San Francisco Giants 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 5

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Butler cf 4 0 0 0
Aldrete lf 3 0 1 0
Clark 1b 3 0 0 0
Maldonado rf 4 0 0 0
Mitchell 3b 4 0 1 0
Melvin c 3 0 0 0
Thompson 2b 3 0 1 0
Uribe ss 2 0 0 0
Downs p 2 0 0 0
  Spilman ph 1 0 0 0
  Garrelts p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 3 0
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Sax 2b 2 1 0 0
  Anderson 2b 0 0 0 0
Griffin ss 4 1 1 2
Gibson lf 3 0 0 0
Guerrero 3b 3 0 1 0
  Hamilton pr,3b 1 0 0 0
Marshall 1b 4 0 0 0
Davis rf 3 0 0 0
Shelby cf 2 1 0 0
Scioscia c 3 2 2 1
Hershiser p 1 0 0 1
Totals 26 5 4 4
San Francisco 000 000 000032
Los Angeles 000 001 04x540
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Downs  L (0-1) 7.0 2 1 0 1 6
  Garrelts   1.0 2 4 3 3 0
Totals
8.0
4
5
3
4
6
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Hershiser  W (1-0) 9.0 3 0 0 2 6
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
2
6

  E–Thompson (1), Downs (1).  DP–Los Angeles 1.  PB–Melvin (1).  2B–Los Angeles Griffin (1,off Garrelts).  3B–San Francisco Thompson (1,off Hershiser).  HBP–Clark (1,by Hershiser).  IBB–Uribe (1,by Hershiser); Gibson (1,by Garrelts).  SH–Hershiser 2 (2,off Downs,off Garrelts).  BK–Downs (1), Garrelts (1).  HBP–Hershiser (1,Clark).  IBB–Garrelts (1,Gibson); Hershiser (1,Uribe).  U-HP–Jim Quick, 1B–Eric Gregg, 2B–Dave Pallone, 3B–John Kibler.  T–2:29.  A–37,472.
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