Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
May 29, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 29, 1988 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."

"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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Boston Red Sox 4, Oakland Athletics 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Anderson rf 5 0 0 0
Barrett 2b 5 0 1 0
Boggs 3b 3 1 0 0
Evans 1b 4 0 1 0
Burks cf 5 1 1 0
Horn dh 1 1 0 0
  Romero ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Rice lf 4 1 1 0
Gedman c 4 0 2 1
Owen ss 4 0 2 2
Sellers p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 8 3
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Lansford 3b 4 2 2 0
Javier cf,lf 5 1 3 0
Canseco rf 5 1 2 2
Parker dh 4 1 2 1
Hassey c 4 0 0 1
McGwire 1b 3 0 1 0
Jennings lf 2 0 0 1
  Henderson cf 0 0 0 0
Gallego 2b 3 0 0 0
Weiss ss 4 0 1 0
Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson p 0 0 0 0
  Cadaret p 0 0 0 0
  Plunk p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 11 5
Boston 100 300 000481
Oakland 310 010 00x5112
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sellers  L (0-5) 7.0 11 5 5 4 4
  Smith   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
11
5
5
5
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Davis   3.0 6 4 3 3 0
  Nelson  W (3-2) 3.2 1 0 0 2 4
  Cadaret   1.2 1 0 0 0 2
  Plunk  SV (2) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
4
3
5
6

  E–Rice (1), Weiss 2 (8).  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Boston Owen (3,off Davis), Oakland Canseco (6,off Sellers); Lansford (14,off Sellers); McGwire (10,off Sellers).  SB–Canseco (17,2nd base off Sellers/Gedman); Lansford (8,2nd base off Smith/Gedman).  WP–Sellers 2 (5).  BK–Davis (1).  U-HP–Jim Evans, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Ted Hendry, 3B–Larry Young.  T–3:08.  A–43,427.
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