Cleveland Indians vs Oakland Athletics
September 4, 1983 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 4, 1983 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Cleveland Indians 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

Cleveland Indians 9, Oakland Athletics 2

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Hargrove 1b 5 1 2 1
Harrah 3b 4 1 0 0
Franco ss 5 0 1 1
Perkins dh 4 2 2 0
Tabler lf 3 2 1 2
  Bannister lf 1 0 0 0
Hassey c 4 1 2 1
Thomas cf 5 0 3 2
Vukovich rf 4 1 4 0
Fischlin 2b 4 1 1 1
Sutcliffe p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 9 16 8
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Davis rf 3 0 0 0
  Hudgens 1b 1 0 0 0
Heath c 4 0 0 0
  McNealy cf 1 0 0 0
Hancock 1b,rf 5 0 1 0
Lopes dh 4 1 2 0
Murphy cf 3 1 0 0
  Cias c 0 0 0 0
Almon 3b 3 0 1 0
Meyer lf 4 0 2 2
Hill ss 4 0 1 0
Phillips 2b 3 0 0 0
McCatty p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
  Young p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
  Bradley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 7 2
Cleveland 000 051 3009162
Oakland 020 000 000272
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Sutcliffe  W (16-9) 9.0 7 2 2 3 8
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
3
8
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
McCatty  L (5-7) 4.2 7 5 4 4 1
  Smith   1.2 3 3 3 1 0
  Young   0.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Farmer   0.0 2 0 0 0 0
  Bradley   2.2 3 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
16
9
8
5
1

  E–Tabler (9), Fischlin (11), Almon (18), Hill (6).  DP–Oakland 1.  2B–Cleveland Vukovich (13,off McCatty); Hassey (15,off McCatty); Perkins (10,off Smith).  SH–Fischlin (7,off Smith); Almon (5,off Sutcliffe).  IBB–Perkins (2,by McCatty).  SB–Thomas (7,2nd base off McCatty/Heath); Lopes (21,2nd base off Sutcliffe/Hassey).  CS–Perkins (4,2nd base by McCatty/Heath); Hargrove (5,2nd base by Smith/Heath).  WP–Sutcliffe (7), McCatty (4).  IBB–McCatty (4,Perkins).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Bill Kunkel, 2B–John Shulock, 3B–Derryl Cousins.  T–3:00.  A–10,274.
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