Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics
September 23, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 23, 1980 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 4, Oakland Athletics 6

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Lemon cf 5 0 2 0
Squires 1b 5 1 2 1
Baines rf 3 0 0 0
Johnson dh 3 1 2 0
  Moore pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Molinaro lf 4 0 2 1
Morrison 2b 3 0 1 0
Foley c 4 1 1 1
Mullins 3b 4 1 2 1
Cruz ss 3 0 1 0
  Sutherland ph 1 0 1 0
Burns p 0 0 0 0
  Proly p 0 0 0 0
  Wortham p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 14 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 4 1 2 2
Murphy cf 2 1 0 0
Heath dh 4 0 2 0
Armas rf 4 1 1 3
Klutts 3b 3 0 0 0
Newman 1b 1 0 1 0
  Gonzalez pr,1b 2 2 1 0
McKay 2b 4 1 2 0
Essian c 2 0 1 1
Guerrero ss 3 0 0 0
Langford p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 6 10 6
Chicago 010 001 2004140
Oakland 010 001 31x6100
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burns   6.1 8 4 4 4 5
  Proly  L (4-10) 1.1 2 2 2 2 0
  Wortham   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
6
6
7
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Langford  W (18-11) 9.0 14 4 4 2 4
Totals
9.0
14
4
4
2
4

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 1.  PB–Foley 2 (5).  2B–Chicago Lemon (29,off Langford); Sutherland (3,off Langford).  HR–Chicago Foley (4,7th inning off Langford 0 on, 0 out), Oakland Armas (34,7th inning off Proly 2 on, 1 out).  SH–Baines (2,off Langford); Heath (6,off Burns); Guerrero (7,off Proly).  SF–Henderson (2,off Proly).  CS–Morrison (6,2nd base by Langford/Essian); Molinaro (6,3rd base by Langford/Essian); Essian (2,2nd base by Burns/Foley); Gonzalez (2,2nd base by Proly/Foley).  SB–Heath (3,2nd base off Burns/Foley); Henderson (89,2nd base off Burns/Foley).  WP–Langford (7).  U-HP–Ted Hendry, 1B–Terry Cooney, 2B–Bill Kunkel, 3B–John Shulock.  T–2:58.  A–3,069.
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