Oakland Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
October 5, 2003 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 5, 2003 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."

"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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Oakland Athletics 4, Boston Red Sox 5

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Ellis 2b 4 0 0 0
Durazo dh 5 0 1 0
Chavez 3b 4 0 1 0
Tejada ss 4 0 0 0
Hatteberg 1b 3 2 1 0
Guillen lf 4 0 2 0
Melhuse c 4 1 3 1
Dye rf 4 1 2 3
Byrnes cf 4 0 1 0
Hudson p 0 0 0 0
  Sparks p 0 0 0 0
  Rincon p 0 0 0 0
  Foulke p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 11 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Damon cf 4 1 1 2
Garciaparra ss 4 1 1 0
Walker 2b 4 1 1 1
  Jackson 2b 0 0 0 0
Ramirez lf 4 1 2 0
Ortiz dh 4 0 1 2
  Brown pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Millar 1b 3 0 0 0
Nixon rf 2 0 1 0
Mueller 3b 2 0 0 0
Varitek c 3 1 0 0
Burkett p 0 0 0 0
  Wakefield p 0 0 0 0
  Williamson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 7 5
Oakland 010 003 0004111
Boston 002 001 02x570
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Hudson   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Sparks   4.0 2 2 2 3 1
  Rincon   2.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Foulke  L (0-1) 1.0 3 2 2 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
5
5
3
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burkett   5.1 9 4 4 2 1
  Wakefield   1.2 2 0 0 0 0
  Williamson  W (2-0) 2.0 0 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
2
4

  E–Ellis (1).  DP–Oakland 1, Boston 1.  2B–Oakland Chavez (1,off Wakefield), Boston Garciaparra (1,off Foulke); Ortiz (1,off Foulke).  3B–Oakland Melhuse (1,off Burkett).  HR–Oakland Dye (1,6th inning off Burkett 1 on, 1 out), Boston Damon (1,3rd inning off Sparks 1 on, 1 out); Walker (3,6th inning off Rincon 0 on, 0 out).  U–Gerry Davis, Jim Joyce, Bill Welke, Ed Montague, Paul Emmel, Ted Barrett.  T–3:02.  A–35,048.
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