Los Angeles Dodgers vs New York Mets
October 9, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 9, 1988 at Shea Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Mets 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 5, New York Mets 4

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Sax 2b 5 1 1 0
Hatcher 1b 4 1 0 0
  Pena p 0 0 0 0
  Stubbs ph 1 0 0 0
  Leary p 0 0 0 0
  Orosco p 0 0 0 0
  Hershiser p 0 0 0 0
Gibson lf 6 1 1 1
Marshall rf 5 0 0 0
Shelby cf 4 1 2 2
Scioscia c 4 1 1 2
  Dempsey ph,c 0 0 0 0
Hamilton 3b 4 0 0 0
  Sharperson ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Griffin ss 4 0 1 0
Tudor p 2 0 0 0
  Holton p 0 0 0 0
  Heep ph 0 0 0 0
  Horton p 0 0 0 0
  Davis ph 0 0 0 0
  Woodson ph,1b 2 0 1 0
Totals 42 5 7 5
New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 4 0 0 0
  McDowell p 0 0 0 0
  Mazzilli ph 1 0 1 0
Jefferies 3b 5 0 0 0
Hernandez 1b 5 1 2 0
Strawberry rf 6 1 1 2
McReynolds lf 5 2 2 1
Carter c 4 0 2 1
  Myers p 0 0 0 0
  Dykstra cf 1 0 0 0
Teufel 2b 3 0 0 0
  Backman 2b 1 0 0 0
Elster ss 2 0 0 0
  Johnson ph,ss 2 0 0 0
Gooden p 3 0 1 0
  Sasser c 2 0 1 0
  Darling pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 44 4 10 4
Los Angeles 200 000 002 001571
New York 000 301 000 0004102
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Tudor   5.0 8 4 4 1 1
  Holton   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
  Horton   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Pena  W (1-1) 3.0 0 0 0 3 1
  Leary   0.1 2 0 0 0 0
  Orosco   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Hershiser  SV (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
12.0
10
4
4
6
4
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Gooden   8.1 5 4 4 5 9
  Myers   2.1 1 0 0 1 0
  McDowell  L (0-1) 1.1 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
12.0
7
5
5
6
10

  E–Hatcher (1), Elster 2 (2).  DP–Los Angeles 1, New York 1.  2B–New York McReynolds (1,off Tudor).  3B–New York Carter (1,off Tudor).  HR–Los Angeles Scioscia (1,9th inning off Gooden 1 on, 0 out); Gibson (1,12th inning off McDowell 0 on, 2 out), New York Strawberry (1,4th inning off Tudor 1 on, 0 out); McReynolds (1,4th inning off Tudor 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Griffin (1,off Myers).  SB–Sax 3 (5,2nd base off Gooden/Carter 2,3rd base off Gooden/Carter); Shelby (2,2nd base off Gooden/Carter); McReynolds (1,2nd base off Pena/Dempsey).  CS–Wilson (1,2nd base by Pena/Scioscia).  WP–Gooden 2 (2).  BK–Gooden (1).  U–Dutch Rennert, Bob Davidson, Paul Runge, Harry Wendelstedt, Joe West, John McSherry.  T–4:29.  A–54,014.
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