Baltimore Orioles vs Oakland Athletics
April 29, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 29, 1979 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. 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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Baltimore Orioles 13, Oakland Athletics 1

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 6 1 1 0
Dauer 3b 6 2 4 2
Singleton rf 3 2 2 3
  Harlow rf 1 0 0 0
May dh 5 2 3 1
Murray 1b 4 1 1 1
Roenicke lf 5 1 1 3
Smith 2b 4 1 2 0
Dempsey c 5 2 1 1
Garcia ss 3 1 1 2
  Belanger ss 1 0 0 0
Palmer p 0 0 0 0
  Martinez p 0 0 0 0
  Stoddard p 0 0 0 0
Totals 43 13 16 13
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Wallis rf 4 1 2 0
Guerrero ss 4 0 1 0
Page dh 3 0 0 0
Revering 1b 3 0 0 1
Gross 3b 3 0 2 0
Murphy cf 3 0 0 0
Murray lf 3 0 0 0
Essian c 3 0 0 0
Edwards 2b 2 0 0 0
Johnson p 0 0 0 0
  Wirth p 0 0 0 0
  Todd p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 5 1
Baltimore 020 010 100013162
Oakland 100 000 000150
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Palmer   0.2 2 1 1 0 0
  Martinez  W (1-0) 6.1 2 0 0 2 5
  Stoddard   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
3
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson  L (0-4) 6.1 8 5 5 3 4
  Wirth   0.0 4 4 4 0 0
  Todd   0.2 3 4 4 1 0
  Lacey   2.0 1 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
16
13
13
5
7

  E–Garcia 2 (3).  DP–Baltimore 3.  3B–Baltimore Smith (1,off Wirth).  HR–Baltimore Garcia (1,2nd inning off Johnson 1 on, 2 out); May (5,5th inning off Johnson 0 on, 2 out); Dauer (3,7th inning off Johnson 0 on, 1 out); Roenicke (2,7th inning off Wirth 2 on, 1 out); Singleton (6,7th inning off Todd 2 on, 2 out).  CS–Edwards (1,2nd base by T Martinez/Dempsey); Murray (1,2nd base by T Martinez/Dempsey).  WP–T Martinez (1).  T–2:33.  A–2,972.
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