Oakland Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
May 11, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 11, 1979 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox 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 2, Boston Red Sox 11

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Dilone rf 4 1 1 0
Klutts 2b 4 0 0 0
Gross 3b 4 0 3 0
Revering 1b 3 0 0 1
Guerrero ss 3 0 1 0
  Picciolo ss 1 0 0 0
Page lf 4 1 3 1
Newman dh 4 0 1 0
Murphy cf 3 0 0 0
  Murray cf 1 0 0 0
Essian c 4 0 1 0
Keough p 0 0 0 0
  Minetto p 0 0 0 0
  Todd p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
  Heaverlo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 10 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 3 1 1 2
  Duffy 2b 2 0 0 0
Burleson ss 2 2 0 0
  Wolfe ss 2 0 1 0
Lynn cf 5 1 1 1
Rice dh 2 2 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 2 2 2 2
  Dwyer lf 2 0 1 1
Hobson 3b 4 1 3 4
Scott 1b 4 0 1 0
Evans rf 3 1 0 0
Montgomery c 4 1 1 1
Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 11 11 11
Oakland 000 001 0012101
Boston 200 801 00x11110
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Keough  L (0-5) 3.1 5 8 6 4 1
  Minetto   0.1 2 2 2 1 0
  Todd   2.1 2 1 1 1 2
  Lacey   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Heaverlo   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
11
11
9
6
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Stanley  W (3-2) 9.0 10 2 2 0 2
Totals
9.0
10
2
2
0
2

  E–Murphy (2).  DP–Oakland 1.  2B–Oakland Gross (4,off Stanley), Boston Remy (3,off Keough); Hobson (4,off Minetto); Lynn (3,off Todd).  3B–Boston Scott (1,off Lacey).  HR–Oakland Page (3,9th inning off Stanley 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Revering (3,off Stanley).  IBB–Rice (1,by Minetto).  IBB–Minetto (1,Rice).  U-HP–Jim McNally, 1B–Dick Clegg, 2B–Dallas Parks, 3B–Clarence Merritt.  T–2:27.  A–26,637.
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