Los Angeles Dodgers vs Oakland Athletics
October 20, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 20, 1988 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Oakland Athletics 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Oakland Athletics 2

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Sax 2b 4 0 2 0
Stubbs 1b 4 1 2 0
Hatcher lf 4 2 2 2
  Gonzalez lf 0 0 0 0
Marshall rf 4 0 0 0
Shelby cf 3 0 0 0
Davis dh 2 2 1 2
Dempsey c 4 0 1 1
Hamilton 3b 4 0 0 0
Griffin ss 4 0 0 0
Hershiser p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 8 5
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Javier lf 3 0 1 2
Henderson cf 2 0 0 0
Canseco rf 4 0 0 0
Parker dh 4 0 0 0
McGwire 1b 4 0 0 0
Hassey c 3 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 4 1 2 0
Phillips 2b 3 1 1 0
Weiss ss 2 0 0 0
Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Cadaret p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson p 0 0 0 0
  Honeycutt p 0 0 0 0
  Plunk p 0 0 0 0
  Burns p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 4 2
Los Angeles 200 201 000580
Oakland 001 000 010240
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Hershiser  W (2-0) 9.0 4 2 2 4 9
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
4
9
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Davis  L (0-2) 4.2 6 4 4 1 5
  Cadaret   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Nelson   3.0 1 1 1 2 1
  Honeycutt   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Plunk   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Burns   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
5
5
3
6

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 1.  2B–Los Angeles Dempsey (1,off Nelson).  HR–Los Angeles Hatcher (2,1st inning off Davis 1 on, 1 out); Davis (1,4th inning off Davis 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Weiss (1,off Hershiser).  SF–Javier (1,off Hershiser).  CS–Sax (1,2nd base by Davis/Hassey).  WP–Hershiser (1).  U–Jerry Crawford (NL), Larry McCoy (AL), Doug Harvey (NL), Durwood Merrill (AL), Derryl Cousins (AL), Bruce Froemming (NL).  T–2:51.  A–49,317.
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