Oakland Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
September 2, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 2, 1978 at Fenway Park. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Oakland Athletics 4, Boston Red Sox 3

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Alston rf 5 0 0 0
Revering 1b 4 0 1 1
  Woodard pr 0 1 0 0
  Newman 1b 1 0 1 0
  Dilone pr 0 0 0 0
  Gross 1b 0 0 0 0
Carty dh 3 1 1 0
Page lf 4 1 2 1
  Essian c 1 0 0 0
Robinson c 3 0 2 2
  Armas cf 0 0 0 0
Guerrero ss 4 0 1 0
Duncan 3b 4 0 0 0
Wallis cf,lf 3 0 1 0
Edwards 2b 4 1 2 0
Langford p 0 0 0 0
  Sosa p 0 0 0 0
  Heaverlo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 11 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burleson ss 4 0 0 0
Brohamer 2b 5 0 0 0
Rice rf 3 1 3 0
Yastrzemski lf 4 0 0 0
Fisk c 4 1 0 0
Lynn cf 3 1 1 0
Scott 1b 4 0 1 2
Hobson 3b 4 0 1 0
Bailey dh 2 0 0 0
  Remy pr,dh 0 0 0 0
  Evans ph,dh 1 0 1 0
  Hancock pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Torrez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 7 2
Oakland 000 000 4004111
Boston 000 000 210372
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Langford  W (7-10) 6.0 4 2 1 1 4
  Sosa   1.2 2 1 0 1 0
  Heaverlo  SV (10) 1.1 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
3
1
2
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Torrez  L (15-8) 9.0 11 4 3 4 3
Totals
9.0
11
4
3
4
3

  E–Newman (10), Fisk 2 (13).  DP–Boston 1.  PB–Essian (3).  2B–Oakland Wallis (13,off Torrez); Revering (19,off Torrez); Newman (5,off Torrez), Boston Lynn (27,off Langford).  IBB–Carty (7,by Torrez).  HBP–Burleson (3,by Langford); Bailey (1,by Sosa).  SB–Edwards (27,2nd base off Torrez/Fisk).  CS–Rice (5,2nd base by Langford/Robinson).  WP–Sosa (2).  HBP–Langford (3,Burleson); Sosa (1,Bailey).  IBB–Torrez (7,Carty).  U-HP–Ken Kaiser, 1B–Mike Reilly, 2B–Bill Haller, 3B–Ron Luciano.  T–2:36.  A–33,051.
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