Milwaukee Brewers vs Oakland Athletics
July 12, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 12, 1987 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Oakland Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Milwaukee Brewers 4, Oakland Athletics 3

Milwaukee Brewers ab   r   h rbi
Castillo 2b 3 0 0 0
  Manning ph,lf,rf 2 1 1 1
Yount cf 4 1 2 1
Cooper dh 3 0 0 0
Brock 1b 4 1 2 2
Deer lf 3 0 0 0
  Paciorek 3b 0 0 0 0
Surhoff c 4 0 0 0
Braggs rf 4 1 1 0
  Felder lf 0 0 0 0
Riles 3b,ss 4 0 2 0
Sveum ss,2b 4 0 0 0
Nieves p 0 0 0 0
  Clear p 0 0 0 0
  Plesac p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 8 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 4 0 1 0
Davis rf 4 0 0 0
Canseco lf 4 1 2 0
McGwire 1b 2 0 0 0
  Weiss pr 0 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 2 1 0 0
Cey dh 3 0 0 0
  Jackson ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Murphy cf 2 0 0 0
  Steinbach ph 1 1 1 3
  Polonia cf 0 0 0 0
Tettleton c 2 0 0 0
LeMaster 2b 3 0 0 0
Ontiveros p 0 0 0 0
  Howell p 0 0 0 0
  Leiper p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 4 3
Milwaukee 010 000 030480
Oakland 000 000 300341
  Milwaukee Brewers IP H R ER BB SO
Nieves  W (6-6) 7.0 4 3 3 4 7
  Clear   1.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Plesac  SV (18) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
3
3
5
8
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Ontiveros   7.0 4 2 2 0 7
  Howell  L (2-3) 0.2 2 2 2 1 2
  Leiper   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Nelson   1.1 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
2
10

  E–Polonia (3).  DP–Milwaukee 2.  2B–Milwaukee Braggs (13,off Ontiveros); Riles (2,off G Nelson), Oakland Canseco 2 (17,off Nieves 2).  HR–Milwaukee Brock (9,2nd inning off Ontiveros 0 on, 0 out), Oakland Steinbach (7,7th inning off Nieves 2 on, 2 out).  IBB–Lansford (6,by Nieves).  SB–Manning (3,2nd base off Howell/Tettleton).  CS–Weiss (1,2nd base by Plesac/Surhoff).  IBB–Nieves (3,Lansford).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Mike Reilly, 2B–Tim Welke, 3B–Joe Brinkman.  T–2:53.  A–33,519.
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