New York Mets vs Atlanta Braves
July 16, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 16, 1989 at Fulton County Stadium. The Atlanta Braves 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Mets 2, Atlanta Braves 6

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 5 0 1 0
Hernandez 1b 5 0 0 0
Johnson 3b,ss 3 2 2 1
Strawberry rf 4 0 1 0
McReynolds lf 4 0 1 1
Jefferies 2b 4 0 1 0
Sasser c 4 0 1 0
Elster ss 3 0 0 0
  Aase p 0 0 0 0
  Teufel ph 1 0 0 0
  Aguilera p 0 0 0 0
Ojeda p 1 0 1 0
  Innis p 0 0 0 0
  Mazzilli ph 1 0 0 0
  Tapani p 0 0 0 0
  Magadan ph,3b 2 0 1 0
Totals 37 2 9 2
Atlanta Braves ab   r   h rbi
McDowell cf 4 0 2 0
Blauser 2b 3 0 1 2
  Treadway ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Smith lf 4 0 1 0
Thomas ss 3 0 0 0
Murphy rf 4 0 1 0
Evans 1b 4 2 2 2
Davis c 3 0 1 0
Whited 3b 3 2 1 0
Clary p 2 2 1 0
  Acker p 0 0 0 0
  Wetherby ph 1 0 0 0
  Boever p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 10 4
New York 000 001 010291
Atlanta 030 110 01x6102
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Ojeda  L (5-9) 3.0 8 4 4 3 2
  Innis   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Tapani   2.0 1 1 1 1 1
  Aase   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Aguilera   1.0 1 1 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
6
6
6
4
  Atlanta Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Clary  W (3-0) 6.2 7 1 1 1 2
  Acker   1.1 2 1 1 0 3
  Boever   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
1
5

  E–Johnson (10), Blauser (9), L Smith (2).  DP–New York 2.  2B–New York Johnson (26,off Clary); McReynolds (15,off Clary); Magadan (11,off Clary), Atlanta Whited (1,off Ojeda).  HR–New York Johnson (23,8th inning off Acker 0 on, 0 out), Atlanta Evans 2 (6,2nd inning off Ojeda 0 on, 1 out,5th inning off Tapani 0 on, 1 out).  CS–Wilson (4,2nd base by Clary/Davis).  SB–McDowell (3,2nd base off Tapani/Sasser); Whited (1,2nd base off Aguilera/Sasser).  WP–Aguilera (2).  U-HP–Steve Rippley, 1B–Bruce Froemming, 2B–Terry Tata, 3B–Bill Hohn.  T–2:29.  A–16,977.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook