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NEW TRIVIA QUESTION: While the Astros gave up 17 runs in their worst game of 1968, what was the most runs the team scored that year in one game? TOTAL 10 POINTS.
April 29th, 1968 was a date few of the 10,000 plus fans at the Astrodome will ever forget. It was a day four Astro's pitchers were pounded for 17 runs at the hands of the Cincinnati Reds. Interestingly enough, the Reds did not make a position change substitution in the nine inning game.
The Reds scored four runs in the first three innings off Jim Ray but by the fourth it was all but over. That inning the Reds burst thru for a six-spot and led 10-1 after four innings. In the fourth Tony Perez tripled to drive in two and scored on another hit. The Astros never got off the ground.
Jim Maloney went five innings with Bob Lee going the final four as there was no need to waste the starting pitcher leading 11-1. Lee finished it up and the Reds destroyed Houston 17-2.
Four Reds had three hits, and Pete Rose had four. Tony Perez drove in five runs, Rose and Lee May each drove in three. Ray gave up seven runs in three-plus innings while Danny Coombs gifted three, Tom Dukes four and Don Wilson the last three.
Johnny Bench and Perez each homered and when the dust settled the Reds had 22 hits to the Astros 10. It would be hard to imagine more than a handful of hard core fans were left in this Monday night game to see the final out.
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