Tom Browning Perfect Game Box Score

The small crowd that patiently waited nearly three hours for a 10 p.m. start were treated to a magnificent pitchers duel that featured Tim Belcher taking a no-hitter into the the sixth inning and Tom Browning completing the first ever Cincinnati Reds perfect game.

''I remember Ron Oester tackling me and after that, it, honestly, felt like an out-of-body experience. It was like I was fifteen, twenty feet above the pile and looking down at it.'' - Tom Browning
Tom Browning Perfect Game Box Score

Tom Browning

September 16, 1988 at Riverfront Stadium

Hitting & Fielding Notes

Los Angeles Dodgers
NAME POS AB R H RBI

Alfredo Griffin

ss 3 0 0 0

Mickey Hatcher

1b 3 0 0 0

Kirk Gibson

lf 3 0 0 0

   a-Jose Gonzalez

lf 0 0 0 0

Mike Marshall

rf 3 0 0 0

John Shelby

cf 3 0 0 0

Jeff Hamilton

3b 3 0 0 0

Rick Dempsey

c 3 0 0 0

Steve Sax

2b 3 0 0 0

Tim Belcher

p 2 0 0 0

   b-Tracy Woodson

ph 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 27 0 0 0

 

Cincinnati Reds
NAME POS AB R H RBI

Barry Larkin

ss 3 1 1 0

Chris Sabo

3b 3 0 1 0

Kal Daniels

lf 3 0 0 0

Eric Davis

cf 2 0 0 0

Paul O'Neill

rf 3 0 0 0

Nick Esasky

1b 3 0 0 0

Jeff Reed

c 3 0 0 0

Ron Oester

2b 3 0 1 0

Tom Browning

p 3 0 0 0
TOTALS 26 1 3 0

a: Replaced Gibson who was ejected in the 7th inning.
b: Struck out for Woodson in the 8th inning.

Double: Larkin.
Error
: Hamilton.
Left On Base
: Cincinnati 2.

Line Score

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Los Angeles

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Cincinnati

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 x 1 3 0

Pitching Notes

Los Angeles Dodgers
NAME IP H R ER BB SO

Tim Belcher

8.0 3 1 0 1 7

 

Cincinnati Reds
NAME IP H R ER BB SO

Tom Browning

9.0 0 0 0 0 7

Losing Pitcher: Belcher (10-5).
Winning Pitcher: Browning (16-5).

Game Notes

Attendance: 16,591.
Length of Game: 1:51.
Umpires: HP: Jim Quick, 1B: Mark Hirschbeck, 2B: John Kibler, 3B: Eric Gregg.

Tom Browning Perfect Game Box Score



Tom Browning remembered three players very well and commented ten years later about them, "Mike Marshall hit a ball to right field that was hit pretty well, but Paul O'Neill caught it. There was a ball (hit by Marshall) that (Chris) Sabo backhanded at third, and (Rick) Dempsey hit a ball down the right field line that O'Neill caught."

The ball from the game used to sit on his mantel. Where is it now? ''I don't know if the kids played with it or not,'' Browning said. ''I think it's in the woods behind our house. It didn't have anything on it, and it was just sitting there. I guess the kids needed a ball to play with."

The game was delayed two-and-a-half hours, but when it finally started Tom Browning was at his best throwing one-hundred two pitches and seventy-two for strikes.