Chicago White Sox vs Oakland Athletics
September 26, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 26, 1981 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 1, Oakland Athletics 5

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Hairston lf 4 0 1 0
Bernazard 2b 3 0 0 0
Baines rf 4 0 1 0
Luzinski dh 4 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 4 1 1 1
Lemon cf 4 0 1 0
Morrison 3b 3 0 1 0
Essian c 4 0 3 0
Pryor ss 2 0 0 0
  Molinaro ph 1 0 1 0
  Almon ss 0 0 0 0
  Turner ph 1 0 0 0
Burns p 0 0 0 0
  Robinson p 0 0 0 0
  Hickey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 9 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 2 1 1 0
Murphy cf 4 0 0 0
Johnson dh 4 0 0 0
Armas rf 4 0 0 0
Klutts 3b 4 3 3 2
Moore 1b 3 1 1 1
  Spencer ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Newman c 2 0 1 1
McKay 2b 3 0 1 0
Stanley ss 3 0 0 0
McCatty p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 7 4
Chicago 010 000 000191
Oakland 020 011 01x570
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burns  L (9-6) 7.0 6 4 3 2 9
  Robinson   0.2 1 1 1 0 1
  Hickey   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
5
4
2
10
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
McCatty  W (14-6) 9.0 9 1 1 2 5
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
2
5

  E–Morrison (12).  DP–Oakland 1.  3B–Oakland Moore (1,off Burns).  HR–Chicago Johnson (1,2nd inning off McCatty 0 on, 1 out), Oakland Klutts 2 (5,6th inning off Burns 0 on, 0 out,8th inning off Robinson 0 on, 2 out).  SF–Newman (2,off Burns).  CS–Lemon (8,2nd base by McCatty/Newman); Henderson (22,3rd base by Burns/Essian).  SB–Henderson 3 (55,2nd base off Burns/Essian 3).  U-HP–Russ Goetz, 1B–Bill Haller, 2B–George Maloney, 3B–Ken Kaiser.  T–2:53.  A–21,171.
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