Oakland Athletics vs Minnesota Twins
August 11, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 11, 1981 at Metropolitan Stadium. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Minnesota Twins 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

Oakland Athletics 6, Minnesota Twins 5

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 5 2 2 1
Murphy cf 5 2 2 1
Gross 3b 2 0 0 1
Armas rf 4 0 1 1
Spencer 1b 4 0 1 0
Budaska dh 4 0 1 0
Newman c 3 1 1 0
Drumright 2b 3 1 1 0
  Babitt 2b 1 0 0 0
Stanley ss 3 0 2 1
Norris p 0 0 0 0
  Underwood p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 11 5
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Powell rf 3 0 0 1
  Engle ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Wilfong 2b 2 0 0 0
  Mackanin ph,2b 2 1 1 1
Hatcher cf 4 1 1 0
Smalley ss 4 0 1 0
Adams dh 4 0 0 1
Castino 3b 4 0 1 0
Goodwin 1b 4 3 2 0
Wynegar c 4 0 1 1
Jackson lf 2 0 1 1
Williams p 0 0 0 0
  Havens p 0 0 0 0
  Corbett p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 8 5
Oakland 240 000 0006110
Minnesota 001 111 100581
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Norris  W (9-3) 5.0 3 3 3 1 2
  Underwood   1.1 4 2 2 0 0
  Jones  SV (3) 2.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
5
5
1
3
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Williams  L (1-5) 1.0 6 4 4 0 2
  Havens   6.0 3 2 2 1 2
  Corbett   2.0 2 0 0 2 0
Totals
9.0
11
6
6
3
4

  E–Powell (3).  DP–Minnesota 2.  2B–Oakland Armas (17,off Williams); Drumright (1,off Williams), Minnesota Goodwin 2 (5,off Norris 2); Hatcher (15,off Norris); Wynegar (2,off Underwood).  HR–Minnesota Mackanin (2,6th inning off Underwood 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Gross (2,off Havens).  SF–R Jackson (1,off Norris).  WP–Jones (1).  BK–Havens (1).  U-HP–Dan Morrison, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Mark Johnson, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–2:29.  A–8,836.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook