Oakland Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
July 2, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 2, 1968 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Oakland Athletics 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)
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Oakland Athletics 3, Boston Red Sox 4

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 5 0 2 0
Jackson rf 2 0 0 0
Monday cf 4 0 1 0
Bando 3b 4 0 0 0
Donaldson 2b 3 2 1 0
Cater 1b 4 1 2 0
Rudi lf 3 0 0 0
  Gosger lf 0 0 0 0
Duncan c 2 0 0 1
Krausse p 3 0 0 0
  Sprague p 0 0 0 0
  Lindblad p 0 0 0 0
  Aker p 0 0 0 0
  Green ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 6 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Andrews 2b 4 0 1 0
Jones 1b 4 2 3 0
  Tartabull pr 0 1 0 0
  Scott 1b 0 0 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 2 1 0 0
Harrelson rf 4 0 2 3
Smith cf 4 0 0 1
Petrocelli ss 3 0 0 0
Foy 3b 3 0 0 0
Howard c 3 0 1 0
Bell p 2 0 0 0
  Lyle p 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 7 4
Oakland 010 200 000360
Boston 000 101 02x471
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Krausse   5.0 4 2 2 1 1
  Sprague   2.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Lindblad  L (4-1) 0.0 0 1 1 1 0
  Aker   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
4
4
2
1
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Bell   6.0 5 3 2 6 2
  Lyle  W (3-1) 3.0 1 0 0 1 4
Totals
9.0
6
3
2
7
6

  E–Andrews (12).  DP–Oakland 1, Boston 2.  2B–Oakland Cater (9,off Bell), Boston Howard (3,off Krausse); Jones (2,off Krausse); Harrelson (9,off Aker).  SF–Duncan (2,off Bell).  IBB–Duncan (2,by Bell).  SB–Jackson (7,2nd base off Bell/Howard).  WP–Bell (6).  IBB–Bell (4,Duncan).  U-HP–Lou DiMuro, 1B–Marty Springstead, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Bob Stewart.  T–2:33.  A–21,492.
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