Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics
May 27, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 27, 1981 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Chicago White 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 3, Oakland Athletics 0

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 5 0 3 1
Squires 1b 5 0 0 1
Fisk c 3 0 0 0
Luzinski dh 4 1 2 0
  Kuntz pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Baines rf 4 1 0 0
Lemon cf 4 0 2 1
Bernazard 2b 4 0 1 0
  Pryor 2b 0 0 0 0
Morrison 3b 3 0 0 0
Almon ss 4 1 2 0
Baumgarten p 0 0 0 0
  Hoyt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 10 3
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 4 0 0 0
Murphy cf 3 0 0 0
Armas rf 4 0 0 0
Johnson dh 3 0 1 0
Heath c 4 0 2 0
Newman 1b 2 0 0 0
  Spencer ph,1b 2 0 0 0
Babitt 2b 2 0 1 0
  Drumright ph,2b 0 0 0 0
McKay 3b,ss 3 0 1 0
Picciolo ss 2 0 0 0
  Gross ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Langford p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 5 0
Chicago 020 000 1003100
Oakland 000 000 000051
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Baumgarten  W (5-4) 5.0 4 0 0 1 1
  Hoyt  SV (6) 4.0 1 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
3
2
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Langford  L (5-5) 9.0 10 3 2 1 7
Totals
9.0
10
3
2
1
7

  E–Newman (1).  DP–Chicago 2.  2B–Chicago Almon (5,off Langford); Luzinski (4,off Langford); LeFlore (5,off Langford), Oakland Heath (5,off Baumgarten).  SH–Morrison (5,off Langford).  SB–Baines (5,2nd base off Langford/Heath).  WP–Baumgarten (2).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Steve Palermo, 2B–Ted Hendry, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:50.  A–17,621.
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