Cleveland Indians vs Oakland Athletics
June 6, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 6, 1979 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Cleveland Indians 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Cleveland Indians 6, Oakland Athletics 4

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Dade lf 5 1 1 0
Harrah ss 5 3 3 1
Bonds rf 4 0 3 1
Thornton 1b 4 0 0 0
Manning cf 4 0 1 2
Alexander c 5 1 1 0
Norris dh 2 0 1 0
  Pruitt ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Cox 3b 4 0 0 0
Kuiper 2b 4 1 2 1
Wise p 0 0 0 0
  Cruz p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 12 5
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Murphy cf 3 0 0 0
Murray rf 5 0 0 0
Page dh 4 1 1 1
Revering 1b 4 1 1 0
Newman c 4 1 2 1
Guerrero ss 2 0 0 0
  Ramirez ss,3b 2 0 0 0
Gross 3b 3 1 1 0
  Dilone pr 0 0 0 0
  Picciolo ss 0 0 0 0
Armas lf 4 0 1 0
Edwards 2b 4 0 2 1
McCatty p 0 0 0 0
  Heaverlo p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 8 3
Cleveland 200 010 1116121
Oakland 011 001 100483
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wise  W (6-5) 7.0 7 4 3 3 4
  Cruz  SV (5) 2.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
4
3
3
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
McCatty   6.0 8 4 0 1 3
  Heaverlo  L (2-5) 2.0 4 2 2 0 2
  Lacey   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
12
6
2
2
5

  E–Harrah (9), Revering (6), Ramirez (2), Gross (7).  2B–Oakland Revering (13,off Wise).  3B–Cleveland Kuiper (4,off Heaverlo).  HR–Oakland Newman (10,3rd inning off Wise 0 on, 2 out); Page (4,7th inning off Wise 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Norris (2,off Heaverlo).  SF–Bonds (3,off McCatty); Manning (5,off Lacey).  SB–Dade (11,2nd base off McCatty/Newman); Harrah (8,3rd base off Lacey/Newman); Bonds (15,2nd base off Lacey/Newman); Murphy (9,2nd base off Wise/Alexander).  CS–Norris (4,2nd base by McCatty/Newman); Edwards (5,2nd base by Wise/Alexander).  BK–Cruz (1).  U-HP–Ron Luciano, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–Ken Kaiser, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–3:04.  A–1,282.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook