Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
August 18, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 18, 1981 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Boston Red 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

Boston Red Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 7 0 0 0
Evans rf 5 0 2 0
Yastrzemski 1b 6 0 0 0
Rice lf 7 1 1 0
Hancock dh 6 0 0 0
  Perez ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 5 1 2 1
Gedman c 4 0 1 0
Hoffman ss 4 0 1 0
  Rudi ph 1 0 0 0
  Valdez ss 1 0 1 1
Miller cf 5 0 0 0
  Stapleton ph 1 0 0 0
  Nichols cf 0 0 0 0
Torrez p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Clear p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 53 2 8 2
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 5 1 2 0
Murphy cf 4 0 2 1
Gross 3b 6 0 1 0
Armas rf 5 1 1 1
Spencer 1b 6 0 1 0
Budaska dh 5 0 0 0
Drumright 2b 6 0 0 0
Newman c 5 1 1 0
Stanley ss 4 0 0 0
Norris p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
  Owchinko p 0 0 0 0
Totals 46 3 8 2
Boston 000 100 000 000 010282
Oakland 000 001 000 000 011380
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Torrez   5.2 2 1 1 4 2
  Stanley   2.1 4 0 0 0 0
  Clear   4.0 1 0 0 2 3
  Campbell  L (1-1) 2.0 1 2 1 2 1
Totals
14.0
8
3
2
8
6
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Norris   11.0 7 1 1 1 2
  Jones   2.1 1 1 1 3 1
  Owchinko  W (4-2) 1.2 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
15.0
8
2
2
5
5

  E–Yastrzemski (1), Torrez (1).  2B–Boston Rice (12,off Norris); Lansford (17,off Norris), Oakland Henderson (12,off Stanley).  3B–Boston Evans (2,off Norris).  HR–Oakland Armas (14,14th inning off Campbell 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Lansford (1,by Jones).  IBB–Gedman (1,by Jones); Henderson (3,by Campbell).  SH–Stanley (5,off Campbell).  SB–Lansford (13,2nd base off Norris/Newman).  CS–Budaska (1,2nd base by Torrez/Gedman); Henderson (20,2nd base by Torrez/Gedman).  WP–Campbell (1), Jones (2).  HBP–Jones (2,Lansford).  IBB–Campbell (4,Henderson); Jones (5,Gedman).  U–Nick Bremigan, Al Clark, Mike Reilly.  T–3:55.  A–16,631.
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