Ultimate Mets Database: Game of August 16, 1974 - Box Score

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Previous Game:
August 14, 1974
Mets 3, Dodgers 2 1974 Regular Season Game 115
August 16, 1974
Mets 2, Reds 1 Next Game:
August 17, 1974
Reds 6, Mets 2

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National League Standings, August 16, 1974

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Mets Starting Lineup

ss
Bud
Harrelson 2b
Felix
Millan 1b
John
Milner rf
Rusty
Staub lf
Ed
Kranepool 3b
Ken
Boswell c
Jerry
Grote cf
Don
Hahn p
Jerry
Koosman

August 16, 1974, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, OH

New York Mets 2, Cincinnati Reds 1

Mets ab r h bi bb so Avg.

Bud Harrelson ss 5 1 1 0 1 1 .233

Felix Millan 2b 4 0 0 0 1 0 .254

John Milner 1b 4 1 1 0 2 0 .253

Rusty Staub rf 5 0 2 1 1 1 .274

Ed Kranepool lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .333

- Cleon Jones ph-lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .279

Ken Boswell 3b 1 0 0 0 2 0 .244

- Duffy Dyer ph 1 0 1 1 0 0 .133

- Wayne Garrett 3b 1 0 1 0 0 0 .209

Jerry Grote c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .268

Don Hahn cf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .286

Jerry Koosman p 2 0 0 0 1 1 .141

- George Theodore ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .179

- Bob Miller p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111

- Jim Gosger ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000

- Tug McGraw p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143

Reds ab r h bi bb so

Pete Rose lf 4 0 1 0 2 0

Joe Morgan 2b 6 0 1 0 0 3

Johnny Bench 3b-1b-c 6 1 3 0 0 0

Tony Perez 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0

- Darrel Chaney pr-3b 1 0 0 0 0 0

Dave Concepcion ss 5 0 1 0 1 0

George Foster cf-rf 4 0 1 0 2 1

Merv Rettenmund rf 2 0 1 1 1 0

- Cesar Geronimo cf 3 0 0 0 0 0

Bill Plummer c 3 0 1 0 0 0

- Dan Driessen ph-1b 1 0 0 0 1 0

Tom Carroll p 3 0 0 0 0 3

- Tom Hall p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- Terry Crowley ph 1 0 0 0 0 0

- Clay Carroll p 0 0 0 0 0 0

- Phil Gagliano ph 1 0 0 0 0 0

- Will McEnaney p 0 0 0 0 0 0

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E

New York Mets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 7 0

Cincinnati Reds 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0

New York Mets ip h r er bb so

Jerry Koosman 8.0 8 1 1 3 6 3.36

Bob Miller 2.0 1 0 0 1 1 3.45

Tug McGraw (W,4-6) 2.0 1 0 0 3 0 4.50

Cincinnati Reds ip h r er bb so

Tom Carroll 7.0 3 1 1 7 1

Tom Hall 2.0 1 0 0 0 3

Clay Carroll 2.0 1 0 0 1 0

Will McEnaney (L) 1.0 2 1 1 0 0

2B: Johnny Bench, Bill Plummer.
Intentional Walks: Dave Concepcion, Pete Rose.
SH: Jerry Grote, Felix Millan, Darrel Chaney.
SB: John Milner (8), Dave Concepcion.

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