Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giants
April 17, 2001 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 17, 2001 at Pacific Bell Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"When I hit it (home run #500), I couldn't believe I hit it. Everything was in slow motion. It looked like it was stopped in midair. After I saw it went past those people I thought, 'Wow! I did it!'" - Barry Bonds
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Los Angeles Dodgers 2, San Francisco Giants 3

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Grissom cf 5 2 2 0
Grudzielanek 2b 4 0 2 0
Sheffield lf 4 0 0 1
Karros 1b 3 0 2 0
Green rf 4 0 0 0
Hiatt 3b 4 0 0 0
Lo Duca c 4 0 2 0
Reboulet ss 3 0 0 0
Dreifort p 3 0 1 0
  Adams p 0 0 0 0
  Donnels ph 0 0 0 0
  Goodwin pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 9 1
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Benard cf,rf 4 1 1 0
Aurilia ss 4 1 2 0
Bonds lf 4 1 1 2
Kent 2b 4 0 2 1
Rios rf 4 0 0 0
  Nen p 0 0 0 0
Snow 1b 3 0 0 0
Davis R. 3b 2 0 0 0
Santiago c 3 0 1 0
Estes p 2 0 0 0
  Worrell p 0 0 0 0
  Davis E. ph 1 0 0 0
  Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0
  Murray cf 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 7 3
Los Angeles 100 010 000290
San Francisco 100 000 02x371
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Dreifort   6.1 4 1 1 2 6
  Adams  L (0-1) 1.2 3 2 2 0 2
Totals
8.0
7
3
3
2
8
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Estes   6.0 9 2 2 1 8
  Worrell   1.0 0 0 0 2 1
  Rodriguez  W (1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Nen  SV (3) 1.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
4
13

  E–Aurilia (3).  DP–San Francisco 1.  2B–Los Angeles Grissom (1,off Estes); Karros (1,off Estes); LoDuca (3,off Estes).  3B–San Francisco Aurilia (1,off Adams).  HR–San Francisco Bonds (6,8th inning off Adams 1 on, 0 out).  SF–Sheffield (3,off Estes).  SB–Goodwin (2,2nd base off Nen/Santiago).  BK–Estes (1).  U-HP–Rick Reed, 1B–Mark Wegner, 2B–Lazaro Diaz, 3B–Dan Iassogna.  T–3:00.  A–41,059.
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Barry Bonds joined the 500 Home Runs Club during this game. You can hear the five-hundredth home run call by clicking here.

When Barry Bonds hit the historic home run (above), he had already gone deep in four (4) previous games making this the first time in his major league career where he hit a home run in five (5) consecutive games.

The Los Angeles Dodgers were winning 2-1 and Barry Bonds had four-hundred ninety-nine (499) career home runs. Then in the bottom of the eighth (8th) inning, Bonds slammed a 2-0 fastball from reliever Terry Adams into McCovey Cove giving the San Francisco Giants a 3-2 lead, an eventual victory and a spectacular five-hundredth career home run.

     

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