Oakland Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
July 4, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 4, 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 2, Boston Red Sox 7

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Donaldson 2b 3 1 1 0
Campaneris ss 4 0 1 0
Jackson rf 3 0 1 0
Cater 1b 3 0 0 0
Monday cf 3 0 0 0
Bando 3b 4 0 0 0
Rudi lf 4 0 0 0
Duncan c 4 1 1 1
Odom p 2 0 0 0
  Sprague p 0 0 0 0
  Segui p 0 0 0 0
  Green ph 0 0 0 0
  Aker p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 4 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Andrews 2b 5 1 2 1
Jones 1b 4 1 1 0
Yastrzemski lf 2 0 1 1
Harrelson rf 3 0 0 0
Smith cf 3 1 0 0
Petrocelli ss 2 2 0 0
Foy 3b 3 1 1 0
Gibson c 4 1 1 1
Santiago p 1 0 0 0
  Pizarro p 2 0 1 2
Totals 29 7 7 5
Oakland 002 000 000242
Boston 200 203 00x770
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Odom  L (7-5) 5.0 5 6 5 5 2
  Sprague   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Segui   0.2 0 0 0 2 0
  Aker   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
7
7
6
7
3
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Santiago   2.1 3 2 2 1 3
  Pizarro  W (1-0) 6.2 1 0 0 4 7
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
5
10

  E–Cater (1), Odom (1).  DP–Boston 1.  PB–Gibson (6).  2B–Oakland Donaldson (5,off Santiago).  HR–Oakland Duncan (2,3rd inning off Santiago 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–Cater (1,by Pizarro).  SH–Foy (5,off Odom).  SF–Pizarro (1,off Sprague).  SB–Yastrzemski 2 (7,2nd base off Odom/Duncan 2); Smith (13,2nd base off Odom/Duncan).  WP–Pizarro (3).  IBB–Pizarro (1,Cater).  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Bob Stewart, 2B–Lou DiMuro, 3B–Marty Springstead.  T–2:46.  A–14,332.
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