Oakland Athletics vs Chicago White Sox
July 8, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 8, 1969 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Oakland Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Oakland Athletics 2, Chicago White Sox 5

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Tartabull lf 5 0 2 0
Cater 1b 2 0 0 0
  Webster 1b 2 0 0 0
Jackson rf 3 0 0 0
Bando 3b 2 2 0 0
Monday cf 3 0 2 0
Green 2b 4 0 0 0
Kubiak ss 3 0 1 1
Duncan c 4 0 1 1
Nash p 3 0 1 0
  Fingers p 0 0 0 0
  La Russa ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
McCraw rf,1b 4 0 3 3
Aparicio ss 3 1 1 0
May lf 4 0 2 0
Hopkins 1b 4 1 1 0
  Berry cf 0 0 0 0
Herrmann c 4 0 0 0
Melton 3b 4 1 1 0
Bradford cf,rf 4 1 1 0
Knoop 2b 1 0 0 0
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
  Wood p 1 0 0 0
Horlen p 2 0 0 0
  Hansen ph,2b 0 1 0 1
Totals 32 5 9 4
Oakland 010 100 000271
Chicago 001 004 00x590
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Nash  L (4-6) 5.1 6 3 2 2 2
  Fingers   2.2 3 2 2 1 4
Totals
8.0
9
5
4
3
6
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Horlen  W (6-9) 6.0 6 2 2 4 4
  Wood  SV (5) 3.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
4
5

  E–Jackson (4).  DP–Oakland 1, Chicago 1.  2B–Chicago McCraw (7,off Nash).  3B–Chicago McCraw (2,off Fingers).  HBP–Bando (6,by Horlen).  CS–Tartabull (1,2nd base by Horlen/Herrmann).  HBP–Horlen (4,Bando).  U-HP–Larry Barnett, 1B–George Maloney, 2B–Ed Runge, 3B–Jim Odom.  T–2:26.  A–8,203.
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