Montreal Expos vs New York Mets
April 12, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 12, 1988 at Shea Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the Montreal Expos 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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Montreal Expos 0, New York Mets 3

Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Raines lf 4 0 1 0
Webster cf 3 0 1 0
Brooks rf 4 0 0 0
Wallach 3b 3 0 0 0
Galarraga 1b 3 0 1 0
Reed c 4 0 0 0
Rivera ss 4 0 0 0
Candaele 2b 3 0 1 0
Perez p 1 0 0 0
  McClure p 0 0 0 0
  McGaffigan p 0 0 0 0
  Winningham ph 1 0 1 0
  Parrett p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 5 0
New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Dykstra cf 4 0 1 0
Backman 2b 1 0 0 0
  Teufel ph,2b 0 0 0 0
Hernandez 1b 4 0 1 0
Strawberry rf 3 1 1 1
McReynolds lf 4 1 3 0
Carter c 3 1 0 0
Johnson 3b 3 0 1 2
Elster ss 4 0 1 0
Darling p 2 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 8 3
Montreal 000 000 000050
New York 030 000 00x380
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Perez  L (1-1) 6.1 7 3 3 4 4
  McClure   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  McGaffigan   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Parrett   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
3
3
4
5
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Darling  W (1-1) 9.0 5 0 0 3 4
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
3
4

  E–None.  DP–Montreal 2, New York 1.  2B–Montreal Galarraga (3,off Darling).  HR–New York Strawberry (4,2nd inning off Perez 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Perez (1,off Darling); Darling (1,off Perez); Teufel (1,off Perez).  HBP–Backman (1,by Perez).  SB–Johnson (1,2nd base off Perez/Reed).  WP–Perez (1).  BK–Perez 2 (2).  HBP–Perez (1,Backman).  U-HP–John McSherry, 1B–Ed Montague, 2B–Fred Brocklander, 3B–Lee Weyer.  T–2:37.  A–48,719.
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