Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics
September 2, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 2, 1970 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 2

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
McCraw 1b 4 0 0 0
Aparicio ss 3 0 1 0
May lf 3 0 0 0
Melton rf 3 0 1 0
Josephson c 4 0 2 0
Berry cf 3 1 0 0
McKinney 3b 3 0 0 1
Knoop 2b 3 0 0 0
  Hopkins ph 1 0 0 0
Johnson p 3 0 0 0
  Herrmann ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 4 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 3 0 1 1
Monday cf 4 0 0 0
Alou rf,lf 3 0 1 0
Davis lf 3 0 1 0
  La Russa 2b 1 0 0 0
Mincher 1b 4 0 0 0
Bando 3b 2 0 1 0
Tenace c 3 0 0 0
Green 2b 2 0 0 0
  Hovley ph 0 1 0 0
  Grant p 0 0 0 0
Odom p 2 1 1 0
  Jackson ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 5 1
Chicago 010 000 000141
Oakland 001 000 10x253
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson  L (2-4) 8.0 5 2 1 4 9
Totals
8.0
5
2
1
4
9
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Odom  W (7-5) 7.0 2 1 1 3 1
  Grant  SV (24) 2.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
3
2

  E–Josephson (5), Campaneris (18), LaRussa (5), Bando (18).  DP–Chicago 1, Oakland 3.  2B–Oakland Odom (2,off Johnson).  3B–Oakland Campaneris (3,off Johnson).  HBP–Melton (7,by Odom); Berry (6,by Odom).  SB–May (7,2nd base off Odom/Tenace); Aparicio (6,2nd base off Odom/Tenace); Odom (1,3rd base off Johnson/Josephson).  WP–Odom 2 (10).  BK–Johnson (1).  HBP–Odom 2 (4,Melton,Berry).  U-HP–Bill Haller, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–Jim Odom, 3B–Bill Kunkel.  T–2:12.  A–9,932.
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