Oakland Athletics vs Chicago White Sox
September 7, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 7, 1972 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Oakland Athletics 0, Chicago White Sox 6

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 4 0 1 0
Rudi lf 4 0 0 0
Alou rf 3 0 2 0
Jackson cf 4 0 2 0
Tenace c 4 0 0 0
Epstein 1b 4 0 1 0
Bando 3b 3 0 1 0
Maxvill 2b 2 0 0 0
  Duncan ph 1 0 0 0
  Kubiak 2b 0 0 0 0
Blue p 1 0 0 0
  Hendrick ph 1 0 0 0
  Locker p 0 0 0 0
  Knowles p 0 0 0 0
  Mangual ph 1 0 0 0
  Fingers p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 7 0
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Williams rf 2 1 1 0
  Kelly ph,rf 1 1 0 0
Andrews 2b 4 0 1 0
  Morales 2b 0 0 0 0
Allen 1b 3 1 1 4
Reichardt cf 2 1 1 0
  Bradford cf 2 0 0 0
May lf 4 0 2 0
Spiezio 3b 3 1 3 1
Herrmann c 3 0 0 1
Alvarado ss 2 1 1 0
Wood p 3 0 0 0
Totals 29 6 10 6
Oakland 000 000 000071
Chicago 100 200 30x6100
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Blue  L (5-8) 4.0 6 3 3 1 4
  Locker   1.2 1 0 0 0 2
  Knowles   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Fingers   2.0 3 3 3 2 4
Totals
8.0
10
6
6
3
10
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wood  W (24-12) 9.0 7 0 0 1 5
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
1
5

  E–Blue (2).  DP–Chicago 2.  2B–Oakland Jackson (19,off Wood), Chicago Spiezio (9,off Fingers).  3B–Chicago Spiezio (1,off Blue).  HR–Chicago D Allen (33,7th inning off Fingers 2 on, 2 out).  SH–Wood (12,off Fingers).  SF–D Allen (3,off Blue); Herrmann (4,off Blue).  HBP–Spiezio (1,by Locker).  IBB–Alvarado 2 (4,by Blue,by Fingers).  SB–Campaneris 2 (38,2nd base off Wood/Herrmann,3rd base off Wood/Herrmann).  HBP–Locker (2,Spiezio).  IBB–Blue (3,Alvarado); Fingers (7,Alvarado).  U-HP–Jerry Neudecker, 1B–Bill Kunkel, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–2:18.  A–29,968.
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