Oakland Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
May 20, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1996 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Oakland Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Oakland Athletics 4, Boston Red Sox 16

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Young cf 2 1 0 0
  Battle ph,cf 1 0 0 0
Gates 2b 4 1 1 0
Giambi 3b 3 1 1 3
  Lovullo 3b 1 0 1 0
McGwire 1b 4 1 3 1
Plantier lf 4 0 1 0
Steinbach c 4 0 1 0
Williams dh 3 0 0 0
Bordick ss 2 0 0 0
  Bournigal ss 2 0 0 0
Herrera rf 4 0 0 0
Johns p 0 0 0 0
  Van Poppel p 0 0 0 0
  Groom p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor p 0 0 0 0
  Mohler p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 8 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Cordero 2b 6 2 3 3
  Knackert p 0 0 0 0
Valentin ss 5 3 2 1
  Beltre ss 1 0 0 0
Vaughn 1b 6 2 2 2
Canseco lf 5 2 2 4
  Cole cf 0 0 0 0
Stanley dh,c 5 2 2 2
Naehring 3b,2b 5 1 2 1
Haselman c 4 2 4 1
  Delgado c,3b 0 0 0 0
O'Leary rf,lf 4 1 3 2
Cuyler cf,rf 4 1 1 0
Gordon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 45 16 21 16
Oakland 000 013 000481
Boston 007 421 20x16210
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Johns  L (3-5) 2.2 7 7 7 2 3
  Van Poppel   1.0 5 4 4 0 0
  Groom   1.1 2 2 0 0 2
  Taylor   2.0 5 3 3 1 2
  Mohler   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
21
16
14
3
8
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Gordon  W (3-2) 8.0 7 4 4 2 6
  Knackert   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
2
7

  E–Giambi (3).  DP–Oakland 1, Boston 1.  HR–Oakland McGwire (6,5th inning off Gordon 0 on, 0 out); Giambi (8,6th inning off Gordon 2 on, 2 out), Boston Canseco 2 (9,3rd inning off Johns 1 on, 1 out,5th inning off Groom 1 on, 2 out); Haselman (2,6th inning off Taylor 0 on, 1 out); Vaughn (17,7th inning off Taylor 1 on, 0 out).  IBB–Haselman (1,by Johns).  WP–Johns (5).  IBB–Johns (4,Haselman).  U-HP–Gary Cederstrom, 1B–Mike Reilly, 2B–Terry Craft, 3B–Rich Garcia.  T–3:07.  A–20,890.
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