Oakland Athletics vs Toronto Blue Jays
May 9, 2006 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 2006 at Rogers Centre. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 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

Oakland Athletics 6, Toronto Blue Jays 5

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Kotsay cf 4 0 1 2
Swisher lf 5 0 1 0
Crosby ss 5 1 2 1
Thomas dh 5 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 4 1 1 0
Payton rf 4 2 1 0
Melhuse c 4 1 2 2
Ellis 2b 4 1 3 0
Perez 3b 4 0 0 0
  Scutaro 3b 0 0 0 0
Haren p 0 0 0 0
  Kennedy p 0 0 0 0
  Calero p 0 0 0 0
  Street p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 6 11 5
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Johnson rf 5 1 2 2
Catalanotto lf 5 0 0 0
Wells cf 4 0 2 1
Glaus 3b 5 0 1 0
Overbay 1b 4 0 1 0
Hillenbrand dh 4 1 1 0
Zaun c 3 1 1 2
Adams ss 3 1 0 0
Hill 2b 3 1 1 0
  Hinske ph 1 0 0 0
Towers p 0 0 0 0
  Downs p 0 0 0 0
  McGowan p 0 0 0 0
  Schoeneweis p 0 0 0 0
  Walker p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 5 9 5
Oakland 000 302 0106111
Toronto 000 000 302592
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Haren  W (2-3) 7.1 6 3 3 2 7
  Kennedy   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Calero   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Street  SV (5) 1.1 2 2 2 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
5
5
2
10
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Towers  L (0-7) 4.0 5 3 3 1 4
  Downs   1.0 2 1 0 0 0
  McGowan   1.0 2 1 0 0 1
  Schoeneweis   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Walker   2.0 2 1 0 2 2
Totals
9.0
11
6
3
3
8

  E–Perez (2), Glaus (3), Adams (8).  2B–Toronto Johnson (1,off Street); Wells (7,off Street).  3B–Toronto Wells (2,off Haren); Hill (1,off Haren)..  HR–Oakland Crosby (5,4th inning off Towers 0 on 0 out); Melhuse (1,4th inning off Towers 1 on 2 out)., Toronto Zaun (3,7th inning off Haren 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–9.  HBP–Adams (1,by Street).  Team–8.  SB–Ellis (1,2nd base off Towers/Zaun).  U-HP–John Hirschbeck, 1B–Wally Bell, 2B–Mark Carlson, 3B–CB Bucknor.  T–2:53.  A–36,269.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook