Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
May 6, 1990 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 6, 1990 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."

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Boston Red Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 4

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 4 1 1 0
Reed J. ss 2 0 0 0
Burks cf 3 0 0 0
Brunansky rf 2 1 0 1
Evans dh 4 0 0 0
Pena c 4 0 1 0
Quintana 1b 2 0 0 0
Romine lf 3 0 0 0
Barrett 2b 3 0 0 0
Hetzel p 0 0 0 0
  Lamp p 0 0 0 0
  Reed J. p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 2 2 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 2 1 2 1
  Javier ph,cf 2 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 3 0 1 2
Canseco rf 3 1 0 0
McGwire 1b 3 0 0 0
Phelps dh 3 0 2 1
Jose cf,lf 4 0 0 0
Steinbach c 3 1 0 0
Weiss ss 3 0 1 0
Gallego 2b 4 1 1 0
Young p 0 0 0 0
  Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 7 4
Boston 011 000 000220
Oakland 220 000 00x471
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Hetzel  L (1-2) 1.2 5 4 4 3 1
  Lamp   4.1 2 0 0 0 0
  Reed   2.0 0 0 0 3 0
Totals
8.0
7
4
4
6
1
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Young  W (1-1) 8.0 2 2 1 5 5
  Eckersley  SV (9) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
2
2
1
5
7

  E–Young (1).  DP–Boston 1, Oakland 1.  2B–Boston Boggs (9,off Young), Oakland Weiss (5,off Lamp).  HR–Oakland R Henderson (5,1st inning off Hetzel 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Brunansky (1,off Young).  SB–Lansford 2 (6,2nd base off Hetzel/Pena,2nd base off Jerry Reed/Pena); R Henderson (13,3rd base off Hetzel/Pena).  WP–Hetzel (2).  U-HP–John Hirschbeck, 1B–Dave Phillips, 2B–Al Clark, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–2:34.  A–44,008.
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