Baltimore Orioles vs Oakland Athletics
May 13, 1977 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 13, 1977 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Baltimore Orioles 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)
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Baltimore Orioles 5, Oakland Athletics 1

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf,lf 4 1 1 0
Smith 2b 4 1 0 0
Murray lf 5 0 2 0
  Harlow pr,cf 0 0 0 0
May L. 1b 5 1 1 1
DeCinces 3b 5 1 3 0
Kelly rf 5 1 3 1
Dempsey c 4 0 3 1
Dauer dh 2 0 1 1
  Muser ph,dh 2 0 0 0
Belanger ss 4 0 0 0
May R. p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 5 14 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
North cf 4 0 0 0
Scott ss 4 0 0 0
Page lf 4 0 1 0
Allen 1b 3 1 2 0
  McKinney 1b 1 0 0 0
Sanguillen c 3 0 0 0
  Newman c 1 0 0 0
Gross 3b 3 0 1 0
Williams dh 3 0 0 0
Armas rf 2 0 1 0
Perez 2b 3 0 0 0
Blue p 0 0 0 0
  Coleman p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
  Giusti p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 5 0
Baltimore 400 010 0005141
Oakland 010 000 000152
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
May  W (4-3) 9.0 5 1 1 1 4
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
1
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Blue  L (3-3) 4.0 11 5 5 1 2
  Coleman   2.1 1 0 0 3 2
  Lacey   1.2 1 0 0 0 3
  Giusti   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
14
5
5
4
7

  E–DeCinces (5), Scott 2 (6).  DP–Baltimore 1.  2B–Oakland Allen (3,off R May).  SH–Dempsey (3,off Blue).  IBB–Muser (1,by Coleman).  SB–Kelly (4,3rd base off Coleman/Sanguillen); Muser (1,2nd base off Coleman/Sanguillen).  CS–Dempsey (2,Home by Giusti/Newman).  IBB–Coleman (2,Muser).  U-HP–Durwood Merrill, 1B–Don Denkinger, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–2:38.  A–4,115.
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