Atlanta Braves vs San Francisco Giants
September 7, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 7, 1988 at Candlestick Park. The Atlanta Braves 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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Atlanta Braves 4, San Francisco Giants 1

Atlanta Braves ab   r   h rbi
Gant 3b 3 1 3 2
  Royster 3b 0 0 0 0
Blauser 2b 3 0 0 0
Perry 1b 4 0 0 0
Murphy rf 5 0 0 0
Thomas ss 4 1 1 0
James lf 3 1 1 0
Benedict c 4 0 1 0
Blocker cf 4 1 2 0
Glavine p 2 0 1 2
Totals 32 4 9 4
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Butler cf 2 0 0 0
Perezchica 2b 2 0 1 1
Clark 1b 4 0 0 0
Mitchell lf,3b 4 0 0 0
Maldonado rf 4 0 1 0
Melvin c 4 0 0 0
Williams 3b 3 0 0 0
  Lefferts p 0 0 0 0
Uribe ss 3 1 1 0
Brantley p 1 0 0 0
  Garner ph 1 0 0 0
  Price p 0 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Youngblood lf 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 3 1
Atlanta 020 200 000491
San Francisco 000 000 010130
  Atlanta Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Glavine  W (6-15) 9.0 3 1 1 2 5
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
2
5
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Brantley  L (0-1) 5.0 5 4 4 4 2
  Price   1.1 1 0 0 1 2
  Davis   1.1 3 0 0 2 0
  Lefferts   1.1 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
8
6

  E–Thomas (26).  DP–Atlanta 1, San Francisco 2.  PB–Melvin (5).  2B–San Francisco Uribe (9,off Glavine).  HR–Atlanta Gant (16,4th inning off Brantley 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Glavine (7,off Brantley).  HBP–Blauser (1,by Brantley); Butler (2,by Glavine).  IBB–James (3,by Brantley); Thomas (5,by Lefferts).  SF–Perezchica (1,off Glavine).  SB–Perry (28,2nd base off Brantley/Melvin); Gant (16,2nd base off Price/Melvin); Murphy (2,3rd base off Lefferts/Melvin).  CS–James (8,2nd base by Davis/Melvin).  WP–Lefferts (3).  BK–Brantley (1).  HBP–Glavine (7,Butler); Brantley (1,Blauser).  IBB–Brantley (1,James); Lefferts (5,Thomas).  U-HP–Bruce Froemming, 1B–Gary Darling, 2B–Gerry Davis, 3B–Tom Hallion.  T–2:45.  A–4,910.
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