Oakland Athletics vs Chicago White Sox
May 28, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1978 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Oakland Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Oakland Athletics 2, Chicago White Sox 3

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Staggs 2b 4 0 1 0
  Dilone pr 0 1 0 0
Thomasson rf 2 0 0 0
  Newman ph 1 0 1 1
  Murphy pr 0 0 0 0
Page lf 3 0 0 1
Burke cf 3 0 1 0
Guerrero ss 4 0 1 0
Revering 1b 3 0 0 0
Alexander dh 3 0 0 0
Gross 3b 3 0 0 0
Essian c 2 0 0 0
  Edwards pr 0 1 0 0
Keough p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
  Sosa p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 4 2
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Bosley cf,rf 4 0 1 0
Molinaro rf 3 0 0 0
  Lemon ph,cf 0 0 0 0
Garr lf 2 1 1 0
Blomberg dh 3 0 1 0
  Nordhagen ph,dh 1 0 1 0
Breazeale 1b 4 0 1 1
  Johnson 1b 0 0 0 0
Orta 2b 4 2 1 1
Nahorodny c 4 0 0 0
Kessinger ss 4 0 2 0
Pryor 3b 4 0 2 0
Kravec p 0 0 0 0
  LaGrow p 0 0 0 0
  Willoughby p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 10 2
Oakland 000 000 002242
Chicago 011 000 01x3100
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Keough  L (2-4) 6.0 7 2 1 3 2
  Lacey   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Sosa   1.2 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
10
3
2
4
3
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Kravec  W (2-4) 8.0 3 2 2 2 5
  LaGrow   0.1 1 0 0 1 0
  Willoughby  SV (3) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
3
5

  E–Staggs (3), Revering (6).  DP–Chicago 3.  HR–Chicago Orta (6,8th inning off Sosa 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Page (3,by Kravec).  SB–Page (6,2nd base off Kravec/Nahorodny); Bosley (1,2nd base off Lacey/Essian).  CS–Garr (1,2nd base by Keough/Essian).  HBP–Kravec (3,Page).  U-HP–Lou DiMuro, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Mike Reilly, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–2:41.
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