California Angels vs Oakland Athletics
July 9, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 9, 1971 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the California Angels 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

California Angels 0, Oakland Athletics 1

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Alomar 2b 8 0 2 0
Berry cf 8 0 2 0
Conigliaro rf 8 0 0 0
  Reynolds rf 0 0 0 0
Cowan lf 8 0 0 0
McMullen 3b 8 0 2 0
Spencer 1b 8 0 2 0
O'Brien ss 8 0 0 0
Moses c 4 0 1 0
  Rivers ph 1 0 0 0
  Stephenson c 3 0 0 0
May p 4 0 1 0
  Repoz ph 0 0 0 0
  Fisher p 1 0 0 0
  Gonzalez ph 1 0 1 0
  Queen p 1 0 0 0
Totals 71 0 11 0
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Mangual cf,rf 8 0 3 1
Rudi lf 8 0 0 0
Jackson rf 3 0 0 0
  Odom pr 0 0 0 0
  Monday cf 4 0 0 0
Davis 1b,2b 8 0 2 0
Bando 3b 4 0 0 0
Duncan c 5 0 0 0
  Blefary ph,c 1 1 0 0
Brown ss 3 0 0 0
  Tenace ph 1 0 0 0
  La Russa ss 1 0 0 0
  Epstein ph,1b 3 0 0 0
Green 2b,ss 8 0 2 0
Blue p 3 0 0 0
  Fingers p 2 0 0 0
  Hegan ph 1 0 0 0
  Locker p 0 0 0 0
  Knowles p 0 0 0 0
  Hunter ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 64 1 7 1
California 000 000 000 000 000 000 000111
Oakland 000 000 000 000 000 000 01170
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
May   12.0 3 0 0 6 13
  Fisher   5.0 2 0 0 2 1
  Queen  L (1-2) 2.2 2 1 1 0 3
Totals
19.2
7
1
1
8
17
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Blue   11.0 7 0 0 0 17
  Fingers   7.0 2 0 0 1 7
  Locker   0.2 2 0 0 0 1
  Knowles  W (3-4) 1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
20.0
11
0
0
1
26

  E–None.  DP–California 1.  2B–California Moses (5,off Blue).  HBP–Blefary (1,by Queen).  IBB–Bando 2 (7,by May,by Fisher).  SB–Alomar (23,2nd base off Blue/Duncan); Jackson (11,2nd base off May/Moses); Davis (4,2nd base off Fisher/Stephenson).  CS–Mangual (4,2nd base by May/Moses); Monday (6,2nd base by May/Moses).  WP–Blue (8).  HBP–Queen (3,Blefary).  IBB–May (2,Bando); Fisher (5,Bando).  U-HP–Merlyn Anthony, 1B–George Maloney, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Larry Barnett.  T–5:05.  A–22,938.
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