Oakland Athletics vs Baltimore Orioles
October 3, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 3, 1971 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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 3, Baltimore Orioles 5

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 4 0 1 0
Rudi lf 4 0 1 0
Jackson rf 4 0 0 0
Davis 1b 4 1 1 0
Bando 3b 4 1 2 0
Mangual cf 4 1 2 2
Duncan c 3 0 2 1
  Epstein ph 1 0 0 0
Green 2b 1 0 0 0
Blue p 3 0 0 0
  Fingers p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 9 3
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Blair cf 4 0 1 2
Johnson 2b 4 1 1 0
Rettenmund lf 4 0 1 1
Robinson F. rf 3 1 0 0
Powell 1b 4 0 1 0
Robinson B. 3b 3 1 1 0
Etchebarren c 3 0 0 0
Belanger ss 2 1 1 1
McNally p 2 0 0 0
  Motton ph 1 0 1 1
  Palmer pr 0 1 0 0
  Watt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 7 5
Oakland 020 100 000390
Baltimore 000 100 40x571
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Blue  L (0-1) 7.0 7 5 5 2 8
  Fingers   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
7
5
5
2
9
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
McNally  W (1-0) 7.0 7 3 3 1 5
  Watt  SV (1) 2.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
1
6

  E–Johnson (1).  DP–Oakland 1, Baltimore 2.  2B–Oakland Rudi (1,off McNally); Bando (1,off McNally); Duncan (1,off McNally); Mangual (1,off McNally); Campaneris (1,off Watt), Baltimore Johnson (1,off Blue); Rettenmund (1,off Blue); Motton (1,off Blue); Blair (1,off Blue).  3B–Oakland Mangual (1,off McNally).  SH–Green (1,off McNally).  IBB–Green (1,by McNally).  CS–Duncan (1,Home by McNally/Etchebarren); Davis (1,2nd base by McNally/Etchebarren).  IBB–McNally (1,Green).  U–Hank Soar, Larry Napp, Lou DiMuro, Jake O'Donnell, Bill Kunkel, Ron Luciano.  T–2:23.  A–42,621.
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