Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
May 31, 1982 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 1982 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Boston Red 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)
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Boston Red Sox 5, Oakland Athletics 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 4 0 2 0
Evans rf 4 0 0 1
Rice lf 5 0 0 0
Yastrzemski dh 5 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 4 0 2 0
Stapleton 1b 4 1 0 0
Hoffman ss 2 1 1 0
Allenson c 3 1 1 0
Miller cf 4 2 1 4
Ojeda p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 7 5
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 4 1 1 1
Murphy cf 4 0 0 0
Johnson dh 3 0 0 0
Armas rf 4 1 2 1
Rudi 1b 1 0 0 0
  Phillips ss 1 0 0 0
Newman c 4 0 0 0
Lopes 2b 3 0 0 0
Sexton 3b 2 0 0 0
  Gross ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Stanley ss 2 0 1 0
  Spencer ph,1b 2 0 1 0
McLaughlin p 0 0 0 0
  Owchinko p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
Boston 000 400 100570
Oakland 100 000 010252
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ojeda  W (2-4) 5.1 3 1 1 4 4
  Stanley  SV (2) 3.2 2 1 1 2 1
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
6
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
McLaughlin  L (0-3) 7.2 7 5 4 2 5
  Owchinko   1.1 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
5
4
3
6

  E–Henderson (4), Lopes (7).  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Boston Remy (5,off McLaughlin), Oakland Stanley (1,off Ojeda); Spencer (3,off Stanley).  HR–Boston Miller (2,4th inning off McLaughlin 3 on, 2 out), Oakland Henderson (4,1st inning off Ojeda 0 on, 0 out); Armas (4,8th inning off Stanley 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Remy (8,off McLaughlin).  HBP–Hoffman (2,by McLaughlin).  SB–Remy (6,2nd base off McLaughlin/Newman).  HBP–McLaughlin (1,Hoffman).  U-HP–Jim McKean, 1B–Al Clark, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Rocky Roe.  T–2:47.  A–37,143.
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