Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics
September 8, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 8, 1979 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox 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

Chicago White Sox 1, Oakland Athletics 2

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Squires 1b 4 0 1 0
Bannister lf 4 1 1 0
  Bosley lf 0 0 0 0
Washington rf 3 0 1 1
Johnson dh 4 0 0 0
Lemon cf 3 0 1 0
May c 3 0 1 0
  Colbern ph,c 1 0 1 0
Morrison 2b 3 0 0 0
Pryor ss 3 0 1 0
Bell 3b 3 0 1 0
Baumgarten p 0 0 0 0
  Proly p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 8 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 4 0 2 1
Murphy cf 3 1 1 0
Heath rf 2 0 0 0
Revering dh 4 0 1 0
  Murray pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Essian c 4 0 1 1
Edwards 2b 4 0 1 0
Newman 1b 3 0 0 0
  Bryant pr 0 1 0 0
Gross 3b 4 0 1 0
Picciolo ss 3 0 1 0
McCatty p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 8 2
Chicago 001 000 000181
Oakland 000 000 011280
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Baumgarten   7.2 7 1 1 3 1
  Proly  L (2-8) 0.1 1 1 0 2 0
Totals
8.0
8
2
1
5
1
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
McCatty  W (10-9) 9.0 8 1 1 3 6
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
3
6

  E–Bell (12).  DP–Chicago 1, Oakland 2.  2B–Chicago Bannister (22,off McCatty).  SH–Heath (2,off Baumgarten).  IBB–Picciolo (1,by Proly).  SB–Washington 2 (16,2nd base off McCatty/Essian 2); Lemon 2 (5,3rd base off McCatty/Essian,2nd base off McCatty/Essian).  CS–Bell (3,2nd base by McCatty/Essian); Pryor (4,2nd base by McCatty/Essian).  IBB–Proly (7,Picciolo).  U-HP–Dale Ford, 1B–Derryl Cousins, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–Mike Reilly.  T–2:32.  A–1,596.
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