Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
August 27, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 27, 1973 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Boston Red Sox 5, Oakland Athletics 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Harper lf 5 1 0 0
Aparicio ss 5 2 2 2
Yastrzemski 3b 4 0 2 0
Cepeda dh 5 1 3 3
Fisk c 3 0 0 0
Miller cf 5 0 2 0
Evans rf 3 0 0 0
Griffin 2b 3 1 0 0
Cooper 1b 4 0 0 0
Moret p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 5 9 5
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
North cf 5 0 2 0
Campaneris ss 5 0 0 0
Bando 3b 3 0 0 0
Jackson rf 3 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 3 1 1 1
Tenace c 2 1 0 0
Alou dh 4 0 2 0
Rudi lf 3 0 0 0
Green 2b 1 0 0 0
  Morales ph 0 0 0 1
  Kubiak 2b 1 0 0 0
  Andrews ph 1 0 1 0
Odom p 0 0 0 0
  Lindblad p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 6 2
Boston 130 010 000590
Oakland 010 100 000263
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Moret  W (9-0) 9.0 6 2 2 6 5
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
6
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Odom  L (4-10) 8.2 9 5 3 4 7
  Lindblad   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
5
3
4
7

  E–Campaneris (19), Bando (18), Tenace (11).  DP–Boston 1, Oakland 1.  2B–Boston Cepeda (24,off Odom).  HR–Boston Cepeda (19,5th inning off Odom 0 on, 1 out), Oakland Johnson (19,2nd inning off Moret 0 on, 1 out).  HBP–Fisk (10,by Odom).  SF–Morales (1,off Moret).  SB–Harper (34,2nd base off Odom/Tenace); Aparicio (9,2nd base off Odom/Tenace).  HBP–Odom (2,Fisk).  U-HP–Jim Odom, 1B–Lou DiMuro, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–2:53.  A–32,444.
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