San Francisco Giants vs Houston Astros
September 23, 1991 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 23, 1991 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros 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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San Francisco Giants 0, Houston Astros 8

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Wood rf 3 0 0 0
McGee cf 4 0 2 0
  Lewis cf 0 0 0 0
Clark 1b 2 0 0 0
  Kingery 1b 2 0 0 0
Leonard lf 0 0 0 0
  Bass lf 3 0 0 0
Thompson 2b 2 0 0 0
  Benjamin 3b 2 0 0 0
Anderson 3b,2b 3 0 2 0
  Downs p 0 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0
Manwaring c 1 0 0 0
  Decker c 3 0 0 0
Clayton ss 3 0 0 0
Wilson p 0 0 0 0
  Robinson p 2 0 0 0
  Felder 2b 1 0 1 0
Totals 32 0 5 0
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Lofton cf 5 2 2 0
Finley rf 4 1 1 0
  Young ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Bagwell 1b 4 2 3 1
  Schilling p 1 0 0 0
Caminiti 3b 2 1 1 1
  Cooper 3b 3 0 0 0
Cedeno ss 5 2 2 2
Gonzalez lf 3 0 2 3
Candaele 2b 4 0 3 1
Servais c 3 0 2 0
Harnisch p 3 0 0 0
  Tolentino 1b 1 0 0 0
Totals 39 8 16 8
San Francisco 000 000 000051
Houston 440 000 00x8160
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Wilson  L (11-11) 1.1 8 7 7 1 1
  Robinson   4.2 7 1 1 1 3
  Downs   2.0 1 0 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
16
8
8
2
7
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Harnisch  W (11-9) 6.0 2 0 0 0 6
  Schilling  SV (8) 3.0 3 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
1
9

  E–Manwaring (4).  2B–Houston Cedeno (12,off Robinson); Servais (1,off Downs).  HBP–Leonard (1,by Harnisch).  WP–Wilson (5).  HBP–Harnisch (5,Leonard).  U-HP–Jerry Layne, 1B–John McSherry, 2B–Gerry Davis, 3B–Bob Davidson.  T–2:40.  A–4,103.
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