California Angels vs Oakland Athletics
April 12, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 12, 1987 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the California Angels 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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California Angels 1, Oakland Athletics 7

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Downing dh 3 0 1 1
Joyner 1b 4 0 0 0
Schofield ss 4 0 0 0
Hendrick rf 4 0 0 0
White lf 4 0 1 0
Wynegar c 1 0 0 0
  Miller c 1 0 0 0
Polidor 3b 3 0 0 0
Pettis cf 3 1 2 0
McLemore 2b 3 0 1 0
Witt p 0 0 0 0
  Finley p 0 0 0 0
  Cook p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Davis rf 5 3 3 3
  Canseco lf 0 0 0 0
Phillips 2b 4 2 2 0
Lansford 3b 4 0 2 4
Jackson dh 4 0 0 0
Murphy cf 4 0 0 0
Nelson 1b 4 0 2 0
Tettleton c 3 0 0 0
Javier lf,rf 4 0 0 0
Griffin ss 3 2 2 0
  LeMaster ss 1 0 0 0
Young p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 7 11 7
California 000 001 000151
Oakland 220 030 00x7110
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Witt  L (1-1) 4.0 8 7 6 0 8
  Finley   3.0 2 0 0 3 3
  Cook   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
7
6
3
12
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Young  W (1-0) 9.0 5 1 1 2 5
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
2
5

  E–McLemore (2).  DP–Oakland 1.  2B–California Pettis 2 (3,off Young 2), Oakland M Davis (3,off Witt); Phillips (2,off Cook).  3B–Oakland Lansford (1,off Witt); Griffin (1,off Witt).  HR–Oakland M Davis (2,2nd inning off Witt 1 on, 2 out).  CS–McLemore (2,2nd base by Young/Tettleton).  U-HP–Greg Kosc, 1B–Vic Voltaggio, 2B–Rocky Roe, 3B–Larry Barnett.  T–2:31.  A–37,162.
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