New York Mets vs San Francisco Giants
May 18, 2003 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 2003 at Pacific Bell Park. The New York Mets 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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New York Mets 5, San Francisco Giants 1

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Cedeno rf 3 0 1 0
Gonzalez cf,lf 3 0 0 0
Alomar 2b 5 0 1 1
Floyd lf 2 2 0 0
  Clark 1b 0 0 0 0
Phillips 1b 3 1 2 2
  Shinjo pr,cf 0 0 0 0
Wigginton 3b 3 0 1 1
Wilson c 4 1 1 0
McEwing ss 4 0 2 1
Glavine p 2 1 0 0
  Benitez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 5 8 5
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Ellison lf 4 0 0 0
Grissom cf 4 1 2 1
Aurilia ss 4 0 0 0
Santiago c 4 0 2 0
Alfonzo 3b 3 0 0 0
Galarraga 1b 4 0 0 0
Cruz, Jr. rf 3 0 2 0
Perez 2b 3 0 0 0
Ainsworth p 1 0 0 0
  Rivera ph 1 0 0 0
  Jensen p 0 0 0 0
  Eyre p 0 0 0 0
  Feliz ph 1 0 0 0
  Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1
New York 000 211 001580
San Francisco 000 000 001161
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Glavine  W (5-3) 8.1 6 1 1 1 4
  Benitez   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
5
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Ainsworth  L (3-4) 5.0 4 3 2 3 5
  Jensen   2.0 2 1 1 2 0
  Eyre   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
  Rodriguez   1.0 2 1 1 2 0
Totals
9.0
8
5
4
8
6

  E–Santiago (3).  DP–New York 1, San Francisco 2.  PB–Santiago (2).  2B–New York McEwing (3,off Ainsworth).  HR–New York Phillips (1,4th inning off Ainsworth 1 on, 2 out), San Francisco Grissom (5,9th inning off T Glavine 0 on, 0 out).  SH–T Glavine (5,off Jensen).  SF–Wigginton (2,off Jensen).  CS–Cedeno (3,2nd base by Ainsworth/Santiago).  U-HP–Ed Montague, 1B–Brian Gorman, 2B–Bruce Dreckman, 3B–Brian Runge.  T–2:37.  A–42,590.
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