California Angels vs Oakland Athletics
June 7, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 7, 1978 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the California Angels 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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California Angels 0, Oakland Athletics 1

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Landreaux rf 3 0 0 0
  Rettenmund ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Grich 2b 3 0 0 0
  Chalk 2b 1 0 0 0
Bostock cf 4 0 1 0
Rudi dh 4 0 0 0
Baylor lf 4 0 1 0
Jackson 3b 3 0 0 0
Fairly 1b 3 0 0 0
Humphrey c 2 0 0 0
  Solaita ph 0 0 0 0
  Downing pr,c 0 0 0 0
Mulliniks ss 3 0 3 0
Griffin p 0 0 0 0
  LaRoche p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 5 0
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Edwards 2b 3 0 0 0
  Essian ph 1 0 0 0
  Staggs 2b 0 0 0 0
Thomasson rf 4 1 1 0
Guerrero ss 3 0 0 0
Page lf 3 0 0 1
  Murphy lf 1 0 0 0
Revering 1b 3 0 1 0
Armas cf 2 0 0 0
Gross 3b 3 0 1 0
Newman c 1 0 0 0
Duncan dh 3 0 1 0
Keough p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
  Sosa p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 1 4 1
California 000 000 000051
Oakland 000 100 00x140
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Griffin  L (0-2) 6.1 4 1 1 2 3
  LaRoche   1.2 0 0 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
4
1
1
2
6
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Keough  W (4-4) 7.2 4 0 0 1 6
  Lacey   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Sosa  SV (9) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
1
6

  E–Mulliniks (7).  2B–California Mulliniks (3,off Keough); Bostock (9,off Lacey), Oakland Thomasson (4,off Griffin); Gross (7,off Griffin).  SH–Newman (1,off Griffin); Guerrero (9,off Griffin).  IBB–Newman (1,by Griffin).  CS–Baylor (3,2nd base by Keough/Newman).  IBB–Griffin (1,Newman).  U-HP–Mike Reilly, 1B–Bill Haller, 2B–Lou DiMuro, 3B–Ken Kaiser.  T–2:12.  A–6,560.
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