Kansas City Royals vs Oakland Athletics
October 4, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 4, 1986 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Kansas City Royals 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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Kansas City Royals 2, Oakland Athletics 0

Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Law lf 5 1 2 0
  Jones lf 0 0 0 0
Kingery cf,rf 4 1 1 1
Seitzer 1b 4 0 1 0
Brett dh 3 0 1 1
White 2b 4 0 0 0
Quirk 3b 4 0 0 0
  Wilson cf 0 0 0 0
Jackson rf 4 0 1 0
  Pecota 3b 0 0 0 0
Sundberg c 4 0 2 0
Biancalana ss 4 0 1 0
Gubicza p 0 0 0 0
  Black p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 2 9 2
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 4 0 2 0
Davis rf,cf 4 0 1 0
Lansford 3b 4 0 1 0
Bochte 1b 3 0 0 0
  Steinbach ph 1 0 0 0
Canseco lf 4 0 0 0
Baker dh 1 0 0 0
  Phillips pr,dh 0 0 0 0
  Kingman ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Hill 2b 3 0 1 0
Willard c 1 0 0 0
  Tillman ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Javier cf 2 0 0 0
  Tettleton ph,c 1 0 0 0
Stewart p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 5 0
Kansas City 000 020 000290
Oakland 000 000 000051
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Gubicza  W (12-6) 6.0 5 0 0 3 4
  Black  SV (9) 3.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
3
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Stewart  L (9-5) 9.0 9 2 1 3 9
Totals
9.0
9
2
1
3
9

  E–Stewart (1).  DP–Kansas City 2.  2B–Kansas City Sundberg (9,off Stewart).  3B–Kansas City Law (5,off Stewart).  SB–Law (14,2nd base off Stewart/Willard); Davis (27,2nd base off Gubicza/Sundberg).  CS–B Jackson (1,2nd base by Stewart/Willard); Griffin (16,2nd base by Gubicza/Sundberg).  U-HP–Ted Hendry, 1B–Jim Evans, 2B–Tim Welke, 3B–Derryl Cousins.  T–2:56.  A–13,664.
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