Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
July 10, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 10, 1972 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 4, Oakland Athletics 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Harper cf 4 0 1 0
  Miller cf 1 0 1 1
Griffin 2b 5 1 1 0
Yastrzemski lf 2 1 1 0
Petrocelli 3b 4 1 1 2
Fisk c 3 0 1 1
Cater 1b 4 0 0 0
Oglivie rf 4 1 1 0
Beniquez ss 4 0 2 0
McGlothen p 3 0 0 0
  Tiant p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 9 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 4 0 1 0
Rudi lf 4 1 2 0
Jackson cf 4 0 1 0
Epstein 1b 4 0 1 1
Voss rf 4 0 1 0
  Hendrick pr 0 0 0 0
Bando 3b 4 0 0 0
Duncan c 4 1 1 0
Cullen 2b 1 0 0 0
  Hegan ph 1 0 0 0
  Martinez 2b 0 0 0 0
Holtzman p 2 0 1 1
  Shamsky ph 1 0 0 0
  Locker p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Boston 100 000 021490
Oakland 100 010 000280
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
McGlothen  W (2-1) 8.1 8 2 2 0 8
  Tiant  SV (2) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
0
8
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Holtzman  L (11-7) 8.0 6 3 3 3 11
  Locker   1.0 3 1 1 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
3
13

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 1.  PB–Duncan (7).  2B–Boston Fisk (18,off Holtzman), Oakland Epstein (10,off McGlothen).  HR–Boston Petrocelli (8,8th inning off Holtzman 1 on, 2 out).  SH–McGlothen (2,off Holtzman); Cullen (1,off McGlothen).  WP–Holtzman 2 (3).  U-HP–Ron Luciano, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Jim Odom, 3B–Don Denkinger.  T–2:23.  A–29,943.
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