New York Mets vs Oakland Athletics
October 13, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 13, 1973 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the New York Mets 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

New York Mets 1, Oakland Athletics 2

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Garrett 3b 5 0 0 0
Millan 2b 4 0 1 0
Mays cf 4 0 1 0
Jones lf 4 1 2 0
Milner 1b 4 0 2 1
Grote c 4 0 0 0
Hahn rf 2 0 0 0
  Kranepool ph 1 0 0 0
Harrelson ss 2 0 0 0
  Hodges ph 0 0 0 0
  Martinez pr 0 0 0 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Boswell ph 1 0 1 0
  McGraw p 0 0 0 0
  Staub ph 0 0 0 0
  Beauchamp ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 7 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 4 1 1 0
Rudi lf 3 0 1 1
Bando 3b 3 0 1 0
Jackson cf,rf 3 0 0 0
Tenace 1b 3 0 0 0
Alou rf 3 0 0 0
  Davalillo cf 0 0 0 0
Fosse c 3 0 0 0
Green 2b 2 0 0 0
Holtzman p 1 1 1 0
  Mangual ph 1 0 0 0
  Fingers p 1 0 0 0
  Knowles p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 2 4 1
New York 000 100 000172
Oakland 002 000 00x240
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  L (0-1) 6.0 3 2 0 2 3
  McGraw   2.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
4
2
0
3
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Holtzman  W (1-0) 5.0 4 1 1 3 2
  Fingers   3.1 3 0 0 1 3
  Knowles  SV (1) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
4
5

  E–Millan (1), Mays (1).  DP–Oakland 2.  PB–Fosse (1).  2B–New York Jones (1,off Holtzman), Oakland Holtzman (1,off Matlack).  3B–New York Millan (1,off Holtzman).  SH–Matlack (1,off Holtzman); Rudi (1,off McGraw).  IBB–Bando (1,by McGraw).  SB–Campaneris (1,2nd base off Matlack/Grote).  CS–Green (1,2nd base by Matlack/Grote).  IBB–McGraw (1,Bando).  U–Marty Springstead (AL), Augie Donatelli (NL), Jerry Neudecker (AL), Paul Pryor (NL), Harry Wendelstedt (NL), Russ Goetz (AL).  T–2:26.  A–46,021.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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