California Angels vs Oakland Athletics
July 27, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 27, 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 6

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
McLemore 2b 4 0 0 0
Jones rf 4 0 1 0
White cf 4 0 2 0
Downing dh 3 0 0 0
Howell lf 4 0 0 0
DeCinces 3b 4 0 0 0
Hendrick 1b 3 0 1 0
Boone c 3 0 0 0
Polidor ss 3 1 1 1
McCaskill p 0 0 0 0
  Finley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 5 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Polonia cf 5 2 3 1
Davis rf 2 0 1 0
  Javier rf 1 0 0 0
Canseco lf 4 0 2 1
McGwire 1b 5 0 1 1
Lansford 3b 2 0 1 0
Jackson dh 4 0 0 0
Bernazard 2b 1 0 1 0
  LeMaster pr,2b 3 1 0 0
Steinbach c 4 2 2 1
Griffin ss 4 1 2 1
Stewart p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 6 13 5
California 000 010 000150
Oakland 040 110 00x6130
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
McCaskill  L (2-3) 3.2 9 5 5 4 5
  Finley   4.1 4 1 1 0 2
Totals
8.0
13
6
6
4
7
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Stewart  W (13-7) 9.0 5 1 1 0 6
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
0
6

  E–None.  DP–California 1.  2B–California Hendrick (5,off Stewart).  HR–California Polidor (1,5th inning off Stewart 0 on, 2 out), Oakland Steinbach (9,5th inning off Finley 0 on, 1 out).  HBP–Downing (10,by Stewart).  SH–M Davis (2,off McCaskill).  SB–White (22,2nd base off Stewart/Steinbach); Griffin (18,2nd base off Finley/Boone).  WP–McCaskill (1), Finley (4).  HBP–Stewart (3,Downing).  U-HP–Rocky Roe, 1B–Larry Barnett, 2B–Vic Voltaggio, 3B–Greg Kosc.  T–2:37.  A–20,153.
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