Cleveland Indians vs Oakland Athletics
June 4, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 4, 1989 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 0, Oakland Athletics 4

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Browne 2b 3 0 1 0
McDowell lf 4 0 1 0
Carter cf 4 0 0 0
Snyder rf 4 0 0 0
O'Brien 1b 3 0 1 0
Jacoby 3b 4 0 0 0
Clark dh 3 0 0 0
  Hengel ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Allanson c 2 0 1 0
  Skinner c 0 0 0 0
Fermin ss 2 0 0 0
Farrell p 0 0 0 0
  Orosco p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 4 0
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Polonia lf 4 1 2 2
Henderson cf 4 0 0 1
Parker dh 3 0 2 1
McGwire 1b 3 0 1 0
  Beane ph,1b 1 0 1 0
Steinbach c 4 0 0 0
Phillips 3b 4 0 0 0
Javier rf 4 0 1 0
Blankenship 2b 4 2 2 0
Gallego ss 2 1 1 0
Stewart p 0 0 0 0
  Burns p 0 0 0 0
  Honeycutt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 10 4
Cleveland 000 000 000040
Oakland 003 100 00x4100
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Farrell  L (3-6) 7.0 10 4 4 1 7
  Orosco   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
10
4
4
1
9
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Stewart  W (10-2) 7.0 3 0 0 2 2
  Burns   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Honeycutt   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
2
2

  E–None.  2B–Oakland Parker (11,off Farrell).  SH–Fermin (4,off Stewart); Gallego (2,off Farrell).  HBP–Allanson (2,by Stewart).  SB–Javier (7,2nd base off Farrell/Allanson).  HBP–Stewart (4,Allanson).  U-HP–Ken Kaiser, 1B–Larry Young, 2B–Jim Joyce, 3B–Jim McKean.  T–2:24.  A–34,610.
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