Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics
May 20, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1978 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Chicago White Sox 3, Oakland Athletics 4

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Garr lf 3 1 1 0
Kessinger ss 4 1 1 0
Orta 2b 4 0 1 1
Blomberg dh 3 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 2 1 1 1
Molinaro rf 3 0 0 0
Cruz cf 3 0 1 1
Soderholm 3b 3 0 0 0
Nahorodny c 3 0 0 0
Kravec p 0 0 0 0
  LaGrow p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 5 3
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Burke cf 3 0 0 0
Staggs 2b 3 0 1 0
Page lf 3 0 1 0
Guerrero ss 3 0 0 0
Revering 1b 4 0 1 0
  Edwards pr 0 0 0 0
  Picciolo 3b 0 0 0 0
Alexander dh 4 0 0 0
Gross 3b,1b 2 2 1 1
Essian c 2 0 0 0
  Murphy pr,rf 0 1 0 0
Dilone rf 2 0 1 0
  Newman ph,c 1 1 1 3
Wirth p 0 0 0 0
  Langford p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 4 6 4
Chicago 000 200 100350
Oakland 000 000 301460
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Kravec   6.0 3 2 2 5 3
  LaGrow  L (1-1) 2.0 3 2 2 0 1
Totals
8.0
6
4
4
5
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Wirth   6.2 5 3 3 1 2
  Langford  W (1-2) 2.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
3
3
1
3

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 1.  3B–Chicago Cruz (1,off Wirth).  HR–Oakland Newman (2,7th inning off LaGrow 2 on, 0 out); Gross (4,9th inning off LaGrow 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Blomberg (1,off Wirth); Burke (1,off Kravec); Guerrero (7,off Kravec).  SF–Lamar Johnson (1,off Wirth).  HBP–Lamar Johnson (1,by Wirth).  CS–Lamar Johnson (1,2nd base by Wirth/Essian); Edwards (5,2nd base by LaGrow/Nahorodny).  SB–Dilone (13,2nd base off Kravec/Nahorodny).  HBP–Wirth (2,Lamar Johnson).  U-HP–George Maloney, 1B–Jim McKean, 2B–Greg Kosc, 3B–Jerry Neudecker.  T–2:02.  A–4,177.
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