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Oakland Athletics vs Kansas City Royals
August 31, 1973 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1973 at Royals Stadium. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Kansas City Royals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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"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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| Game played on Friday, August 31, 1973 at Royals Stadium |
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| Oakland |
0 | 3 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 2 | 1 | 3 | – | 10 | 13 | 2 |
| Kansas City |
4 | 0 | 3 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 7 | 10 | 1 |
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| Oakland Athletics |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Holtzman |
2.2 |
8 |
7 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
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Odom |
2.1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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Pina |
2.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Fingers W (6-6) |
2.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
10 |
7 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
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| Kansas City Royals |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Splittorff |
6.1 |
7 |
6 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
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Bird L (4-4) |
2.2 |
6 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
13 |
10 |
10 |
1 |
4 |
E–North (7), Holtzman (5), Taylor (6). DP–Oakland 1, Kansas City 1. 2B–Oakland Alou 2 (3,off Splittorff 2), Kansas City Mayberry (18,off Holtzman); Piniella (24,off Holtzman); Reichardt (13,off Holtzman); McRae (11,off Odom). HR–Oakland Bando 2 (24,6th inning off Splittorff 0 on, 1 out,9th inning off Bird 1 on, 2 out), Kansas City Otis (25,3rd inning off Holtzman 0 on, 1 out). SF–Fosse (4,off Splittorff); Campaneris (6,off Bird). SB–North (44,2nd base off Bird/Taylor); Patek (30,2nd base off Fingers/Fosse). CS–Piniella (6,3rd base by Holtzman/Fosse). U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–Bill Kunkel, 3B–Hank Soar. T–2:42. A–36,242. |
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| Game played on Friday, August 31, 1973 at Royals Stadium |
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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."
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