Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
July 5, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 5, 1987 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 3, Oakland Athletics 6

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 5 1 1 1
Barrett 2b 5 0 3 0
Boggs 3b 4 0 1 1
Greenwell lf 3 0 1 0
  Benzinger ph,lf 1 0 0 0
  Rice ph 1 0 0 0
Baylor dh 4 0 0 0
Evans rf 3 0 0 1
Buckner 1b 3 0 1 0
Owen ss 4 1 2 0
Sullivan c 2 1 0 0
  Gedman ph 1 0 1 0
Boyd p 0 0 0 0
  Bolton p 0 0 0 0
  Gardner p 0 0 0 0
  Sambito p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 10 3
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Polonia cf,lf 4 0 0 1
Davis rf 4 0 0 0
Canseco lf 4 2 2 2
  Murphy cf 0 0 0 0
McGwire 1b 2 2 1 1
Lansford 3b 4 1 1 0
Jackson dh 4 0 0 1
Phillips 2b 3 0 1 1
Tettleton c 4 1 2 0
Griffin ss 3 0 1 0
Stewart p 0 0 0 0
  Cadaret p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson p 0 0 0 0
  Leiper p 0 0 0 0
  Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 8 6
Boston 000 000 0213101
Oakland 001 203 00x680
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Boyd  L (1-2) 6.0 7 6 4 0 2
  Bolton   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Gardner   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Sambito   0.2 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
8
6
4
1
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Stewart  W (10-7) 7.0 7 2 2 2 4
  Cadaret   0.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Nelson   1.1 3 1 1 1 2
  Leiper   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Eckersley  SV (5) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
3
3
4
7

  E–Barrett (5).  DP–Oakland 1.  2B–Boston Greenwell (14,off Stewart), Oakland Phillips (15,off Boyd).  HR–Oakland Canseco 2 (18,4th inning off Boyd 0 on, 0 out,6th inning off Boyd 0 on, 0 out); McGwire (30,4th inning off Boyd 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–Buckner (1,by Stewart).  HBP–McGwire 2 (3,by Boyd,by Gardner).  SB–Griffin (14,2nd base off Boyd/Sullivan).  WP–G Nelson (4).  HBP–Boyd (1,McGwire); Gardner (2,McGwire).  IBB–Stewart (2,Buckner).  U-HP–Tim McClelland, 1B–Larry Young, 2B–John Shulock, 3B–Jim McKean.  T–3:03.  A–32,655.
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