New York Mets vs Oakland Athletics
October 14, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 14, 1973 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The New York Mets 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

New York Mets 10, Oakland Athletics 7

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Garrett 3b 6 1 1 1
Millan 2b 6 0 0 0
Staub rf 5 0 1 0
  Mays pr,cf 2 1 1 1
Jones lf 5 3 3 1
Milner 1b 6 1 2 0
Grote c 6 1 2 0
Hahn cf,rf 7 1 1 1
Harrelson ss 6 1 3 1
Koosman p 1 0 0 0
  Sadecki p 0 0 0 0
  Theodore ph 1 0 0 0
  Parker p 0 0 0 0
  Kranepool ph 0 0 0 0
  Beauchamp ph 1 0 0 0
  McGraw p 2 1 1 0
  Stone p 0 0 0 0
Totals 54 10 15 5
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 6 2 1 0
Rudi lf 5 1 2 1
Bando 3b 5 2 1 1
Jackson cf 6 1 4 2
Tenace 1b 3 0 1 1
Alou rf 6 0 3 2
Fosse c 5 0 0 0
Green 2b 2 0 0 0
  Mangual ph 1 0 0 0
  Kubiak 2b 0 0 0 0
  Andrews ph,2b 2 0 0 0
Blue p 2 0 0 0
  Pina p 0 0 0 0
  Knowles p 0 0 0 0
  Conigliaro ph 1 0 0 0
  Odom p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson ph 1 0 1 0
  Lewis pr 0 1 0 0
  Fingers p 1 0 0 0
  Lindblad p 0 0 0 0
  Davalillo ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 47 7 13 7
New York 011 004 000 00410151
Oakland 210 000 102 0017135
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Koosman   2.1 6 3 3 3 4
  Sadecki   1.2 0 0 0 0 3
  Parker   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  McGraw  W (1-0) 6.0 5 4 4 3 8
  Stone  SV (1) 1.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
12.0
13
7
7
7
15
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Blue   5.1 4 4 4 2 4
  Pina   0.0 2 2 0 0 0
  Knowles   1.2 1 0 0 2 2
  Odom   2.0 2 0 0 0 2
  Fingers  L (0-1) 2.2 6 4 1 0 2
  Lindblad   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
12.0
15
10
5
4
10

  E–Koosman (1), Bando (1), Tenace (1), Andrews 2 (2), Knowles (1).  DP–New York 1, Oakland 1.  2B–New York Harrelson (1,off Fingers), Oakland Rudi (1,off Koosman); Alou (1,off Koosman); Jackson (1,off McGraw); Johnson (1,off McGraw).  3B–Oakland Bando (1,off Koosman); Campaneris (1,off Koosman); Jackson (1,off McGraw).  HR–New York Jones (1,2nd inning off Blue 0 on, 0 out); Garrett (1,3rd inning off Blue 0 on, 2 out).  SH–McGraw (1,off Fingers).  HBP–Grote (1,by Pina); Jones (1,by Fingers); Campaneris (1,by McGraw).  IBB–Millan (1,by Knowles); Fosse (1,by Koosman).  SB–Campaneris (2,3rd base off McGraw/Grote).  CS–Rudi (1,2nd base by Koosman/Grote); Tenace (1,Home by Sadecki/Grote).  HBP–McGraw (1,Campaneris); Pina (1,Grote); Fingers (1,Jones).  IBB–Koosman (1,Fosse); Knowles (1,Millan).  U–Augie Donatelli (NL), Jerry Neudecker (AL), Paul Pryor (NL), Russ Goetz (AL), Marty Springstead (AL), Harry Wendelstedt (NL).  T–4:13.  A–49,151.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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