New York Mets vs Cincinnati Reds
May 8, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 8, 1989 at Riverfront Stadium. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the New York Mets and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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New York Mets 0, Cincinnati Reds 3

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Dykstra cf 3 0 0 0
  Leach p 0 0 0 0
Johnson 3b,ss 4 0 1 0
Hernandez 1b 3 0 1 0
Strawberry rf 4 0 1 0
McReynolds lf 4 0 1 0
Jefferies 2b 4 0 0 0
Carter c 3 0 0 0
Elster ss 2 0 0 0
  Magadan ph,3b 2 0 0 0
Ojeda p 2 0 0 0
  Wilson ph,cf 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 4 0
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Daniels lf 1 1 0 0
  Winningham pr,cf 0 0 0 0
Sabo 3b 2 2 0 0
Larkin ss 3 0 1 1
Benzinger 1b 2 0 1 2
O'Neill rf 4 0 0 0
  Franco p 0 0 0 0
Roomes cf,lf 4 0 0 0
Diaz c 4 0 0 0
Oester 2b 4 0 0 0
Rijo p 2 0 1 0
  Charlton p 0 0 0 0
  Youngblood rf 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 3 3 3
New York 000 000 000041
Cincinnati 200 010 00x330
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Ojeda  L (1-4) 7.0 3 3 3 6 2
  Leach   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
3
3
3
6
2
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Rijo  W (3-0) 7.0 2 0 0 3 9
  Charlton   0.2 1 0 0 1 1
  Franco  SV (11) 1.1 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
4
11

  E–Jefferies (2).  2B–New York Johnson (4,off Rijo).  SH–Sabo (2,off Ojeda).  SF–Benzinger 2 (3,off Ojeda 2).  SB–Dykstra (6,2nd base off Rijo/Diaz); Daniels (4,2nd base off Ojeda/Carter); Sabo 2 (10,2nd base off Ojeda/Carter 2); Larkin (2,2nd base off Ojeda/Carter); Winningham (4,2nd base off Ojeda/Carter).  WP–Rijo (1).  U-HP–Bruce Froemming, 1B–Terry Tata, 2B–Dana DeMuth, 3B–Steve Rippley.  T–2:36.  A–20,384.
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