Los Angeles Dodgers vs New York Mets
September 3, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 3, 1988 at Shea Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 1, New York Mets 2

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Sax 2b 4 0 0 0
Heep rf,lf 4 0 0 0
Gibson lf 1 0 1 0
  Davis rf 2 0 0 0
Hatcher 3b 3 0 1 0
  Gonzalez pr 0 0 0 0
Shelby cf 4 0 0 0
Stubbs 1b 3 1 1 0
  Woodson ph 1 0 0 0
Scioscia c 3 0 2 1
  Dempsey ph 1 0 0 0
Griffin ss 3 0 1 0
Tudor p 1 0 0 0
  Gwynn ph 1 0 0 0
  Pena p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 6 1
New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf,lf 4 0 0 0
Jefferies 3b 4 0 0 0
Hernandez 1b 4 0 1 0
Strawberry rf 3 1 1 0
McReynolds lf 4 1 3 1
  Myers p 0 0 0 0
Teufel 2b 3 0 0 0
Lyons c 3 0 2 1
Elster ss 3 0 0 0
Gooden p 2 0 1 0
  Dykstra cf 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 8 2
Los Angeles 000 010 000161
New York 020 000 00x280
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Tudor  L (8-7) 6.0 7 2 2 0 4
  Pena   2.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
8
2
2
1
6
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Gooden  W (16-6) 8.0 6 1 1 1 5
  Myers  SV (21) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
7

  E–Stubbs (6).  DP–Los Angeles 1.  2B–New York McReynolds (25,off Tudor).  SH–Tudor (7,off Gooden); Gooden (9,off Pena).  HBP–Hatcher (1,by Gooden).  SB–Gibson (28,2nd base off Gooden/Lyons); Stubbs (11,2nd base off Gooden/Lyons); Gonzalez (1,2nd base off Myers/Lyons).  CS–Davis (3,2nd base by Gooden/Lyons).  HBP–Gooden (6,Hatcher).  U-HP–Dana DeMuth, 1B–Harry Wendelstedt, 2B–Randy Marsh, 3B–Dutch Rennert.  T–2:42.  A–43,896.
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