New York Mets vs San Diego Padres
August 18, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 18, 1996 at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey. The San Diego Padres 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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New York Mets 0, San Diego Padres 8

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Johnson cf 4 0 1 0
Espinoza 3b 4 0 1 0
Gilkey lf 4 0 0 0
Baerga 1b 4 0 0 0
Tomberlin rf 3 0 0 0
Mayne c 3 0 1 0
Alfonzo 2b 4 0 2 0
Ordonez ss 4 0 2 0
Wilson p 2 0 0 0
  Petagine ph 1 0 0 0
  Byrd p 0 0 0 0
  Everett ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 0 7 0
San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 4 2 2 0
Gwynn rf 3 0 1 0
Finley cf 4 1 1 1
Caminiti 3b 3 2 2 4
  Reed 2b 1 0 0 0
Joyner 1b 3 0 1 1
Shipley 2b,3b 4 0 1 0
Johnson c 4 1 1 1
Gomez ss 4 0 1 0
Hamilton p 3 2 2 1
  Veras p 0 0 0 0
  Livingstone ph 1 0 0 0
  Hoffman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 8 12 8
New York 000 000 000071
San Diego 013 110 11x8120
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Wilson  L (4-9) 6.0 9 6 6 1 3
  Byrd   2.0 3 2 2 0 2
Totals
8.0
12
8
8
1
5
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Hamilton  W (11-7) 7.0 6 0 0 1 10
  Veras   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Hoffman   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
2
12

  E–Alfonzo (7).  PB–Johnson (5).  2B–San Diego Finley (39,off Wilson); Joyner (20,off Wilson).  HR–San Diego Caminiti 2 (26,2nd inning off Wilson 0 on, 0 out,3rd inning off Wilson 2 on, 2 out); Hamilton (1,4th inning off Wilson 0 on, 2 out); Johnson (7,8th inning off Byrd 0 on, 1 out).  SH–T Gwynn (1,off Wilson).  SB–Shipley (5,2nd base off Wilson/Mayne); Finley (19,3rd base off Wilson/Mayne).  WP–Byrd (2).  U-HP–Angel Hernandez, 1B–Paul Runge, 2B–Joe West, 3B–Jerry Layne.  T–2:20.  A–22,810.
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