Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics
September 8, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 8, 1987 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Texas Rangers defeated the Oakland Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 12, Oakland Athletics 1

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Browne 2b 3 2 1 0
Fletcher ss 5 1 1 0
  Wilkerson ss 0 0 0 0
Sierra rf 5 1 2 0
O'Brien 1b 3 2 1 1
  Paciorek ph,1b 1 1 1 2
Parrish dh 5 2 2 5
O'Malley 3b 4 1 2 0
  Slaught ph 1 0 0 0
  Buechele 3b 0 0 0 0
McDowell cf 3 1 0 0
Petralli c 4 1 1 2
Brower lf 4 0 2 1
Hough p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 12 13 11
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Polonia dh 3 1 0 0
Davis rf 4 0 1 0
Murphy cf 1 0 0 0
  Javier cf 0 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 3 0 1 0
  Steinbach 3b 1 0 0 0
Canseco lf 4 0 0 0
McGwire 1b 4 0 1 0
Bernazard 2b 3 0 0 0
  Gallego 2b 1 0 0 0
Tettleton c 3 0 0 0
Griffin ss 3 0 0 0
  Weiss ss 0 0 0 0
Nelson p 0 0 0 0
  Honeycutt p 0 0 0 0
  Rijo p 0 0 0 0
  Otto p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 3 0
Texas 000 500 30412131
Oakland 001 000 000130
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Hough  W (15-11) 9.0 3 1 0 4 9
Totals
9.0
3
1
0
4
9
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Nelson  L (6-5) 3.1 6 5 5 2 2
  Honeycutt   3.1 3 2 2 2 0
  Rijo   1.1 1 1 1 0 3
  Otto   1.0 3 4 4 1 1
Totals
9.0
13
12
12
5
6

  E–Hough (1).  PB–Petralli 4 (31).  2B–Oakland McGwire (21,off Hough); Lansford (24,off Hough).  3B–Texas Petralli (2,off G Nelson).  HR–Texas Parrish 2 (29,7th inning off Rijo 2 on, 2 out,9th inning off Otto 1 on, 1 out).  SB–Sierra (15,2nd base off G Nelson/Tettleton); Browne (23,2nd base off Honeycutt/Tettleton).  CS–Brower (6,3rd base by Honeycutt/Tettleton); Petralli (2,Home by Honeycutt/Tettleton).  WP–G Nelson (6).  BK–Hough (7).  U-HP–Derryl Cousins, 1B–Ted Hendry, 2B–Dale Ford, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–3:01.  A–12,287.
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