Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giants
May 28, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1978 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Los Angeles Dodgers 5, San Francisco Giants 6

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lacy 2b 5 0 0 0
Russell ss 4 2 0 0
Smith rf 5 1 3 2
  Lopes pr 0 0 0 0
Cey 3b 4 1 2 1
Garvey 1b 4 1 1 1
Baker lf 3 0 0 0
  Rautzhan p 0 0 0 0
Monday cf 3 0 0 0
Oates c 4 0 3 1
Sutton p 3 0 0 0
  North lf 1 0 1 0
Totals 36 5 10 5
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Madlock 2b 4 0 0 0
Whitfield lf 5 2 4 0
Evans 3b 4 1 2 2
McCovey 1b 4 0 0 0
Clark rf 3 1 2 0
Herndon cf 4 1 2 0
Harris ss 2 0 0 0
  Ivie ph 1 1 1 4
  LeMaster ss 1 0 0 0
Sadek c 4 0 1 0
Montefusco p 3 0 0 0
  Moffitt p 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 12 6
Los Angeles 001 002 2005101
San Francisco 000 005 10x6122
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Sutton  L (4-5) 6.1 10 6 6 0 8
  Rautzhan   1.2 2 0 0 2 1
Totals
8.0
12
6
6
2
9
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Montefusco   6.0 8 5 4 4 3
  Moffitt  W (4-1) 3.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
5
4
4
4

  E–Smith (4), LeMaster 2 (8).  2B–Los Angeles Cey (9,off Montefusco); Garvey (9,off Montefusco); Oates (1,off Montefusco), San Francisco Whitfield 3 (7,off Sutton 3); Sadek (1,off Rautzhan).  HR–Los Angeles Smith (8,7th inning off Montefusco 1 on, 0 out), San Francisco Ivie (3,6th inning off Sutton 3 on, 1 out).  IBB–Monday (8,by Montefusco); Clark (2,by Rautzhan); Madlock (3,by Rautzhan).  CS–Oates (1,2nd base by Montefusco/Sadek); North (2,2nd base by Moffitt/Sadek).  SB–Clark (5,2nd base off Sutton/Oates).  WP–Montefusco (3).  IBB–Rautzhan 2 (2,Clark,Madlock); Montefusco (2,Monday).  U-HP–Bruce Froemming, 1B–Eric Gregg, 2B–Bill Williams, 3B–Dick Stello.  T–2:39.  A–56,103.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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