Oakland Athletics vs Cleveland Indians
August 19, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 19, 1972 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Oakland Athletics 4, Cleveland Indians 5

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 5 2 2 0
Mangual cf 5 0 3 2
Rudi lf 4 0 1 0
Epstein 1b 4 1 1 1
Bando 3b 4 0 0 0
Hegan rf 1 0 1 0
  Tenace ph,rf 3 0 0 0
Duncan c 3 1 2 1
Green 2b 3 0 0 0
  Cullen 2b 1 0 0 0
Blue p 0 0 0 0
  Waslewski p 1 0 0 0
  Locker p 0 0 0 0
  Marquez ph 0 0 0 0
  Horlen p 0 0 0 0
  Kubiak ph 1 0 0 0
  Fingers p 0 0 0 0
  Mincher ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 10 4
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Bell cf 2 1 0 0
Leon 2b 4 0 1 0
Chambliss 1b 4 1 1 0
Johnson lf 4 1 2 3
  Unser lf 0 0 0 0
Fosse c 4 0 0 0
Foster rf 1 1 0 0
  Lowenstein rf 2 0 0 0
Nettles 3b 3 1 2 2
Duffy ss 4 0 2 0
Dunning p 1 0 0 0
  Riddleberger p 0 0 0 0
  Lamb p 0 0 0 0
  Kilkenny p 0 0 0 0
  McCraw ph 1 0 0 0
  Hennigan p 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 5
Oakland 011 100 1004100
Cleveland 200 300 00x580
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Blue   1.0 2 2 2 1 2
  Waslewski  L (0-2) 2.1 2 3 3 2 2
  Locker   0.2 1 0 0 1 0
  Horlen   2.0 2 0 0 0 3
  Fingers   2.0 1 0 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
4
10
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Dunning   2.1 5 2 2 0 0
  Riddleberger   1.1 1 1 1 0 0
  Lamb  W (3-4) 1.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Kilkenny   1.1 0 0 0 1 1
  Hennigan  SV (3) 3.0 3 1 1 0 3
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
2
5

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 1, Cleveland 1.  2B–Oakland Campaneris (21,off Dunning); Mangual 2 (12,off Dunning,off Hennigan), Cleveland A Johnson (9,off Blue); Duffy (9,off Locker).  HR–Oakland Epstein (21,2nd inning off Dunning 0 on, 0 out); Duncan (17,4th inning off Riddleberger 0 on, 2 out), Cleveland A Johnson (7,4th inning off Waslewski 0 on, 0 out); Nettles (10,4th inning off Waslewski 1 on, 1 out).  HBP–Nettles (4,by Fingers).  SB–Chambliss (1,2nd base off Fingers/Duncan).  HBP–Fingers (1,Nettles).  U-HP–Marty Springstead, 1B–Bill Haller, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Hank Morgenweck.  T–2:43.  A–12,830.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook