Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
August 20, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 20, 1980 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."

"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

Boston Red Sox 1, Oakland Athletics 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burleson ss 4 0 1 0
Stapleton 2b 4 0 1 0
Lynn cf 3 0 1 0
Perez 1b 4 0 0 0
Rice dh 4 1 3 0
Yastrzemski lf 4 0 1 1
Fisk c 3 0 0 0
Evans rf 3 0 1 0
Hoffman 3b 3 0 2 0
Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 10 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 3 0 0 0
Murphy cf 4 0 0 0
Page dh 3 1 1 0
Revering 1b 3 0 0 0
Gross 3b 2 0 0 1
Armas rf 3 0 0 0
Essian c 2 0 0 0
Guerrero ss 3 1 1 1
Cox 2b 3 0 0 0
Norris p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 2 2 2
Boston 010 000 0001102
Oakland 000 000 11x220
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eckersley  L (9-11) 8.0 2 2 1 2 9
Totals
8.0
2
2
1
2
9
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Norris  W (17-7) 8.2 10 1 1 1 3
  Lacey  SV (4) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
1
1
1
3

  E–Fisk (5), Evans (5).  DP–Oakland 3.  2B–Boston Lynn (31,off Norris).  HR–Oakland Guerrero (2,8th inning off Eckersley 0 on, 1 out).  SF–Gross (6,off Eckersley).  SB–Page (12,2nd base off Eckersley/Fisk); Henderson (62,2nd base off Eckersley/Fisk).  WP–Norris 2 (5).  BK–Norris 2 (4).  U-HP–Dan Morrison, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Mark Johnson, 3B–Russ Goetz.  T–2:32.  A–7,569.
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