Oakland Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
August 31, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1980 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 1, Boston Red Sox 5

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 3 0 1 1
Murphy cf 3 0 0 0
Essian c 4 0 1 0
Armas rf 4 0 2 0
Newman 1b 3 0 0 0
  Revering ph 1 0 0 0
Heath dh 3 0 1 0
  Page ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Guerrero ss 3 0 1 0
  Gross ph 1 0 0 0
McKay 3b 3 1 1 0
Cox 2b 0 0 0 0
  Picciolo ph,2b 2 0 0 0
Norris p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
  Beard p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 7 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burleson ss 5 0 1 0
Stapleton 2b 4 1 1 1
Dwyer cf 2 1 1 0
Rice lf 4 0 1 1
Perez 1b 4 0 1 0
Fisk c 3 0 2 1
Rader dh 3 1 0 0
  Wolfe ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Evans rf 3 0 0 0
Hoffman 3b 2 2 1 2
Tudor p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 5
Oakland 001 000 000170
Boston 002 200 10x580
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Norris  L (18-8) 6.2 8 5 5 5 11
  Lacey   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Beard   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
5
12
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Tudor  W (6-2) 7.1 7 1 1 2 4
  Stanley  SV (13) 1.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
2
5

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 1, Boston 2.  2B–Oakland Armas 2 (14,off Tudor 2); Guerrero (14,off Tudor), Boston Stapleton (22,off Norris).  HR–Boston Hoffman (4,4th inning off Norris 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Cox (10,off Tudor).  HBP–Fisk (11,by Norris).  CS–Burleson (13,3rd base by Norris/Essian).  HBP–Norris (6,Fisk).  U-HP–Rocky Roe, 1B–Jerry Neudecker, 2B–George Maloney, 3B–Dallas Parks.  T–2:56.  A–32,022.
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