Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
April 30, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 30, 1979 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. 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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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Boston Red Sox 4, Oakland Athletics 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 5 1 2 1
Burleson ss 4 0 0 1
Lynn cf 5 0 1 1
Rice dh 4 0 1 0
Yastrzemski lf 5 0 0 0
Dwyer rf 3 1 0 0
  Evans ph,rf 1 0 1 0
Scott 1b 5 0 2 1
Hobson 3b 3 1 1 0
Montgomery c 5 1 3 0
Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell p 0 0 0 0
  Drago p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 4 11 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Wallis rf 5 0 0 0
Guerrero ss 5 0 0 0
Page dh 4 2 1 0
Revering 1b 5 2 2 3
Gross 3b 3 0 0 0
Newman c 5 1 2 2
Murphy cf 3 0 0 0
Bryant lf 4 0 0 0
Edwards 2b 4 0 0 0
Langford p 0 0 0 0
  Heaverlo p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 5 5
Boston 100 021 000 004111
Oakland 000 201 001 01550
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eckersley   7.0 3 3 3 2 1
  Campbell   2.0 1 1 1 0 1
  Drago  L (3-1) 1.2 1 1 1 2 2
Totals
10.2
5
5
5
4
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Langford   5.2 9 4 4 1 1
  Heaverlo   3.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Lacey  W (1-1) 2.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
11.0
11
4
4
3
4

  E–Eckersley (1).  DP–Oakland 2.  2B–Boston Scott (4,off Langford).  HR–Oakland Revering 2 (3,4th inning off Eckersley 1 on, 2 out,6th inning off Eckersley 0 on, 1 out); Newman (2,9th inning off Campbell 0 on, 2 out).  SF–Burleson (1,off Langford).  HBP–Rice (1,by Heaverlo).  IBB–Hobson (1,by Lacey); Murphy (1,by Eckersley); Gross (4,by Drago).  SB–Remy (6,2nd base off Langford/Newman); Page (2,2nd base off Drago/Montgomery).  CS–Remy (4,2nd base by Langford/Newman).  HBP–Heaverlo (1,Rice).  IBB–Eckersley (1,Murphy); Drago (2,Gross); Lacey (1,Hobson).  U-HP–Fred Spenn, 1B–Roy Roth, 2B–Charles Swenson, 3B–Hank Tillman.  T–2:45.  A–14,716.
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