Oakland Athletics vs Chicago White Sox
May 27, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 27, 1978 at Comiskey Park I. 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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Oakland Athletics 4, Chicago White Sox 3

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Staggs 2b 4 1 0 0
Thomasson rf 3 0 1 0
  Dilone rf 0 0 0 0
  Tabb ph 0 0 0 0
  Newman c 0 0 0 0
Page lf 4 1 1 2
  Murray lf 1 0 0 0
Burke cf 4 0 0 0
Guerrero ss 3 0 0 0
Revering 1b 4 1 1 1
Alexander dh 3 0 1 0
  Edwards pr,dh 0 1 0 0
Gross 3b 2 0 1 0
Essian c 3 0 1 1
  Murphy pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Johnson p 0 0 0 0
  Sosa p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 6 4
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Bosley cf 5 0 1 0
Bannister lf 3 1 1 0
  Garr ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Lemon dh 3 0 1 0
  Schueler pr,dh 0 1 0 0
  Soderholm ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Nordhagen rf 3 0 1 1
  Molinaro ph,rf 2 0 1 1
Johnson 1b 5 1 2 0
Nahorodny c 4 0 0 0
Orta 2b 4 0 1 1
Kessinger ss 4 0 2 0
Pryor 3b 4 0 1 0
Wood p 0 0 0 0
  Willoughby p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 3 11 3
Oakland 010 002 000 1460
Chicago 011 000 010 03111
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson   7.0 7 2 2 1 0
  Sosa   1.2 4 1 1 0 1
  Lacey  W (4-2) 1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
11
3
3
1
2
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wood   9.0 4 3 3 4 4
  Willoughby  L (0-4) 1.0 2 1 1 1 1
Totals
10.0
6
4
4
5
5

  E–Willoughby (1).  DP–Chicago 2.  2B–Chicago Bannister (1,off Johnson); Pryor (1,off Johnson); Lemon (9,off Sosa).  3B–Chicago Lamar Johnson (2,off Johnson).  HR–Oakland Revering (3,2nd inning off Wood 0 on, 2 out); Page (4,6th inning off Wood 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Thomasson (2,off Wood); Gross (1,off Willoughby).  HBP–Guerrero (1,by Wood).  IBB–Tabb (1,by Willoughby).  CS–Alexander (3,2nd base by Wood/Nahorodny); Lamar Johnson (2,2nd base by Johnson/Essian).  HBP–Wood (1,Guerrero).  IBB–Willoughby (1,Tabb).  U-HP–Bill Haller, 1B–Lou DiMuro, 2B–Ken Kaiser, 3B–Mike Reilly.  T–2:43.  A–28,367.
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