Oakland Athletics vs Seattle Mariners
August 26, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 26, 2009 at Safeco Field. The Seattle Mariners 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 3, Seattle Mariners 5

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Kennedy 3b 5 0 0 0
Davis cf 4 1 2 0
Suzuki c 4 1 1 2
Hairston lf 4 0 0 0
Cust dh 4 1 1 1
Ellis 2b 3 0 1 0
Sweeney rf 4 0 2 0
Everidge 1b 4 0 1 0
Pennington ss 3 0 1 0
  Garciaparra ph 1 0 0 0
Gonzalez p 0 0 0 0
  Gray p 0 0 0 0
  Bailey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 9 3
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Gutierrez cf 4 0 1 0
Hannahan 3b 2 3 1 0
Lopez 2b 4 2 2 2
Sweeney dh 4 0 2 1
Hall rf 3 0 1 2
Branyan 1b 3 0 0 0
Johnson c 4 0 1 0
Wilson ss 4 0 0 0
Saunders lf 3 0 0 0
French p 0 0 0 0
  Batista p 0 0 0 0
  Lowe p 0 0 0 0
  Aardsma p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 5
Oakland 000 102 000391
Seattle 201 010 10x580
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Gonzalez  L(4-5) 5.0 7 4 4 3 7
  Gray   2.0 1 1 0 0 3
  Bailey   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
4
3
10
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
French  W(4-3) 5.2 6 3 3 1 4
  Batista   1.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Lowe   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Aardsma  SV(30) 1.0 2 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
1
7

  E–Davis (4).  2B–Oakland Sweeney (21,off French), Seattle Sweeney (13,off G. Gonzalez); Johnson (18,off G. Gonzalez); Hannahan (11,off G. Gonzalez); Lopez (34,off G. Gonzalez).  HR–Oakland Cust (20,4th inning off French 0 on 2 out); Suzuki (11,6th inning off French 1 on 0 out), Seattle Lopez (19,1st inning off G. Gonzalez 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–7.  SF–Hall (2,off G. Gonzalez).  Team–6.  U-HP–Dan Bellino, 1B–Mike Winters, 2B–Marty Foster, 3B–Wally Bell.  T–2:40.  A–18,695.
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