Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics
September 23, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 23, 1968 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 1, Oakland Athletics 5

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Bradford rf 4 0 1 0
Aparicio ss 4 0 0 0
May lf 4 0 2 0
Ward 1b 4 1 1 0
Melton 3b 3 0 0 0
Berry cf 3 0 2 1
Alomar 2b 3 0 0 0
McNertney c 3 0 0 0
Fisher p 1 0 0 0
  Rath p 0 0 0 0
  Hopkins ph 1 0 0 0
  Priddy p 0 0 0 0
  Voss ph 1 0 0 0
  Carlos p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 6 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 4 0 1 2
Jackson rf 4 0 1 0
Cater 1b 4 1 1 0
Bando 3b 4 1 1 0
Monday cf 3 0 0 0
Green 2b 2 1 0 0
Keough lf 2 1 0 1
  Gosger lf 0 0 0 0
Duncan c 3 0 0 0
Nash p 4 1 1 2
Totals 30 5 5 5
Chicago 000 000 100161
Oakland 000 500 00x550
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Fisher  L (8-12) 3.2 5 5 5 2 1
  Rath   1.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Priddy   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Carlos   1.0 0 0 0 2 2
Totals
8.0
5
5
5
5
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Nash  W (13-12) 9.0 6 1 1 1 7
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
7

  E–Aparicio (19).  DP–Oakland 1.  2B–Chicago Ward (14,off Nash); Berry (20,off Nash), Oakland Jackson (13,off Fisher); Nash (1,off Fisher).  HBP–Green (1,by Rath).  IBB–Green (3,by Fisher).  SB–Monday (14,2nd base off Rath/McNertney).  WP–Rath (3).  HBP–Rath (1,Green).  IBB–Fisher (4,Green).  U-HP–Bill Haller, 1B–Jerry Neudecker, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Larry Napp.  T–2:12.  A–2,724.
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