California Angels vs Oakland Athletics
August 12, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 12, 1988 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 0, Oakland Athletics 4

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
White cf 4 0 1 0
Ray 2b 3 0 0 0
Joyner 1b 4 0 0 0
Downing dh 3 0 0 0
Davis rf 4 0 0 0
Armas lf 4 0 2 0
Howell 3b 4 0 0 0
Boone c 2 0 0 0
  Eppard ph 1 0 0 0
  Miller c 0 0 0 0
Schofield ss 2 0 1 0
Finley p 0 0 0 0
  Harvey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 4 0
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Phillips lf 2 2 1 0
Henderson cf 3 0 0 0
Canseco rf 4 0 4 1
Lansford 3b 3 0 0 1
McGwire 1b 4 0 0 0
Steinbach c 4 1 2 0
Baylor dh 3 1 1 0
Hubbard 2b 2 0 1 0
Gallego ss 2 0 1 2
Burns p 0 0 0 0
  Cadaret p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 4 10 4
California 000 000 000040
Oakland 021 010 00x4100
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Finley  L (6-11) 7.0 9 4 4 3 4
  Harvey   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
4
4
3
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Burns  W (5-0) 7.1 3 0 0 3 2
  Cadaret  SV (2) 1.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
3
3

  E–None.  DP–California 1.  2B–Oakland Canseco 2 (20,off Finley 2).  SH–Henderson (4,off Finley); Gallego (6,off Finley).  SF–Lansford (3,off Finley).  SB–Canseco (31,2nd base off Harvey/Miller).  CS–Canseco 2 (12,2nd base by Finley/Boone,3rd base by Finley/Boone).  U-HP–John Hirschbeck, 1B–Dale Scott, 2B–Rick Reed, 3B–Rich Garcia.  T–2:25.  A–34,518.
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