New York Mets vs Montreal Expos
September 16, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 16, 1989 at Stade Olympique. The Montreal Expos defeated the New York Mets and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Mets 1, Montreal Expos 10

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Jefferies 2b 3 0 0 0
  Lyons c 1 0 0 0
Samuel cf 3 0 0 0
  Thornton cf 1 0 0 0
Johnson 3b 3 0 1 0
  Shipley 3b,ss 1 0 0 0
Strawberry rf 2 1 1 0
  Miller rf 2 0 1 0
Hernandez K. 1b 3 0 0 0
  Beatty p 0 0 0 0
  Machado p 0 0 0 0
  Carter ph 1 0 0 0
Sasser c,3b 3 0 1 0
Carreon lf 3 0 1 1
Elster ss 2 0 0 0
  Magadan 1b 1 0 0 0
Fernandez p 1 0 0 0
  Whitehurst p 0 0 0 0
  O'Malley ph 1 0 0 0
  Mitchell p 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez M. p 0 0 0 0
  Teufel 2b 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 5 1
Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Hudler lf 3 0 1 0
  Walker ph,lf 2 0 0 1
Grissom cf 4 1 1 0
Galarraga 1b 4 1 1 2
  Raines ph 1 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Brooks rf 3 1 0 0
  Martinez rf 1 0 0 0
Fitzgerald 3b 3 2 1 0
Santovenia c 3 1 1 0
Noboa 2b 3 2 1 0
Owen ss 4 2 3 4
  Burke p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson 1b 0 0 0 0
Perez p 3 0 1 2
  Wallach ph 1 0 1 0
  Huson pr,ss 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 10 11 9
New York 010 000 000151
Montreal 403 030 00x10110
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Fernandez  L (11-5) 2.2 6 7 7 3 4
  Whitehurst   1.1 2 0 0 0 1
  Mitchell   1.0 2 3 2 1 2
  Hernandez   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Beatty   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Machado   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
10
9
4
9
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Perez  W (9-13) 7.0 4 1 1 0 6
  Burke   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Smith   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
0
6

  E–Johnson (20).  2B–New York Strawberry (25,off Perez); Sasser (13,off Perez), Montreal Perez (3,off Fernandez).  HR–Montreal Galarraga (22,1st inning off Fernandez 1 on, 1 out).  HBP–Brooks (3,by Fernandez).  SB–Johnson (38,2nd base off Perez/Santovenia).  HBP–Fernandez (6,Brooks).  U-HP–Jerry Crawford, 1B–Joe West, 2B–John McSherry, 3B–Charlie Williams.  T–2:39.  A–32,228.
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