Oakland Athletics vs Kansas City Royals
September 20, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 20, 1980 at Royals Stadium. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Kansas City Royals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Oakland Athletics 9, Kansas City Royals 0

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 2 2 1 0
Murphy cf 3 2 2 1
Heath dh 5 2 1 1
Armas rf 4 3 4 5
Klutts 3b 5 0 1 0
Newman 1b 5 0 1 2
McKay 2b 4 0 0 0
Essian c 5 0 1 0
Picciolo ss 4 0 0 0
Keough p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 9 11 9
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson lf 4 0 2 0
McRae dh 3 0 2 0
  Castillo ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Brett G. 3b 4 0 0 0
Aikens 1b 3 0 1 0
  Phelps 1b 1 0 0 0
Otis cf 4 0 0 0
Porter c 3 0 0 0
Hurdle rf 3 0 0 0
White 2b 2 0 0 0
  Terrell 2b 1 0 0 0
Washington ss 2 0 0 0
Jones p 0 0 0 0
  Chamberlain p 0 0 0 0
  Twitty p 0 0 0 0
  Brett K. p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 5 0
Oakland 330 102 0009110
Kansas City 000 000 000051
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Keough  W (16-13) 9.0 5 0 0 1 4
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
1
4
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Jones  L (0-1) 1.1 5 5 5 2 1
  Chamberlain   4.2 5 4 3 2 3
  Twitty   2.0 1 0 0 2 0
  Brett   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
9
8
6
4

  E–Hurdle (9).  DP–Oakland 1, Kansas City 1.  2B–Oakland Armas 2 (17,off Jones,off Chamberlain).  HR–Oakland Armas 2 (33,4th inning off Chamberlain 0 on, 1 out,6th inning off Chamberlain 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Murphy (22,off Jones).  IBB–Armas (4,by Twitty).  SB–Henderson 2 (84,2nd base off Jones/Porter 2); Armas (5,3rd base off Chamberlain/Porter).  WP–Chamberlain (1).  IBB–Twitty (3,Armas).  U-HP–Rich Garcia, 1B–Don Denkinger, 2B–Dale Ford, 3B–Greg Kosc.  T–2:43.  A–37,523.
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