Oakland Athletics vs Baltimore Orioles
June 16, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 16, 1978 at Memorial Stadium. 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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Oakland Athletics 0, Baltimore Orioles 6

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Alston lf 5 0 2 0
Murray rf 4 0 0 0
Guerrero ss 4 0 2 0
Revering 1b 4 0 3 0
Page dh 2 0 0 0
Gross 3b 3 0 0 0
Armas cf 4 0 1 0
Essian c 4 0 1 0
Edwards 2b 2 0 0 0
  Duncan ph 1 0 0 0
  Staggs 2b 0 0 0 0
Langford p 0 0 0 0
  Sosa p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
  Heaverlo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 0 9 0
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Harlow cf 4 1 1 0
Dauer 3b 4 2 2 0
Murray 1b 4 3 3 4
Singleton rf 2 0 0 0
  Lopez pr,rf 0 0 0 0
May dh 4 0 0 0
Kelly lf 4 0 1 0
Smith 2b 2 0 0 0
Belanger ss 4 0 1 0
Skaggs c 4 0 0 0
Martinez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 8 4
Oakland 000 000 000091
Baltimore 000 102 03x680
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Langford  L (1-4) 6.0 5 3 3 1 5
  Sosa   1.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Lacey   0.1 1 1 0 2 0
  Heaverlo   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
6
5
3
5
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Martinez  W (6-3) 9.0 9 0 0 4 3
Totals
9.0
9
0
0
4
3

  E–Gross (15).  DP–Baltimore 2.  2B–Oakland Essian (8,off D Martinez), Baltimore Murray (10,off Lacey).  HR–Baltimore Murray 2 (13,4th inning off Langford 0 on, 1 out,6th inning off Langford 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Smith (4,off Sosa).  IBB–Singleton (2,by Lacey); Smith (2,by Lacey).  CS–Alston (1,2nd base by D Martinez/Skaggs).  IBB–Lacey 2 (5,Singleton,Smith).  U-HP–Jerry Neudecker, 1B–George Maloney, 2B–Jim McKean, 3B–Greg Kosc.  T–2:16.  A–31,944.
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