Detroit Tigers vs Oakland Athletics
May 6, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 6, 1998 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Detroit Tigers 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Detroit Tigers 10, Oakland Athletics 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hunter cf 5 1 1 1
Randa 3b 4 1 2 3
Higginson rf 5 1 1 2
Clark 1b 4 0 0 0
Gonzalez lf 3 1 0 0
Easley 2b,ss 3 1 1 0
Tomberlin dh 3 0 0 0
  Manto ph,dh 0 1 0 0
Bako c 3 1 2 0
Cruz ss 2 1 1 2
  Catalanotto ph,2b 2 2 1 1
Keagle p 0 0 0 0
  Florie p 0 0 0 0
  Runyan p 0 0 0 0
  Brocail p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 10 9 9
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 4 0 3 0
Magadan 3b 3 0 1 0
  Blowers ph,3b 2 0 1 1
Grieve rf 4 1 1 0
  Christenson cf 1 0 0 0
Stairs dh 3 1 1 2
  Voigt ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Giambi 1b 3 1 1 0
Hinch c 3 0 1 0
Spiezio 2b 4 0 0 0
Abbott ss 3 1 1 0
McDonald cf,rf 2 1 0 1
Haynes p 0 0 0 0
  Mohler p 0 0 0 0
  Fetters p 0 0 0 0
  Groom p 0 0 0 0
  Small p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 10 4
Detroit 030 000 0341090
Oakland 200 100 2005101
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Keagle   3.2 5 3 3 4 1
  Florie   2.1 3 2 2 1 1
  Runyan   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Brocail  W (1-0) 2.2 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
10
5
5
6
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Haynes   6.0 2 3 2 3 6
  Mohler   1.0 1 1 1 1 0
  Fetters   0.2 1 1 1 0 1
  Groom  L (1-1) 1.0 3 4 4 1 0
  Small   0.1 2 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
10
9
5
8

  E–Magadan (5).  DP–Detroit 4, Oakland 1.  PB–Bako (1).  2B–Detroit Cruz (2,off Haynes); Randa 2 (7,off Fetters,off Small), Oakland Grieve (9,off Keagle).  3B–Oakland Abbott (1,off Florie).  HR–Detroit Higginson (5,8th inning off Groom 1 on, 2 out), Oakland Stairs (5,1st inning off Keagle 1 on, 2 out).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Jim Joyce, 2B–Terry Craft, 3B–Jim McKean.  T–3:00.  A–5,355.
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