Tampa Bay Rays vs Oakland Athletics
May 8, 2010 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 8, 2010 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Tampa Bay Rays and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Tampa Bay Rays 2, Oakland Athletics 4

Tampa Bay Rays ab   r   h rbi
Bartlett ss 4 0 1 1
Crawford lf 4 0 0 0
Zobrist rf 4 0 1 0
Longoria 3b 4 0 0 0
Pena 1b 4 0 0 0
Upton cf 4 1 1 0
Burrell dh 2 0 0 0
  Rodriguez pr,dh 0 0 0 0
  Aybar ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Jaso c 3 1 1 1
Brignac 2b 2 0 1 0
Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Cormier p 0 0 0 0
  Balfour p 0 0 0 0
  Benoit p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 5 2
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Pennington ss 2 1 1 0
Barton 1b 3 0 1 2
Sweeney rf 4 1 2 1
Kouzmanoff 3b 4 0 1 0
Chavez dh 3 0 2 1
  Davis pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Rosales 2b 4 0 0 0
Gross cf 4 1 1 0
Powell c 2 0 0 0
Patterson lf 3 1 1 0
Sheets p 0 0 0 0
  Wuertz p 0 0 0 0
  Blevins p 0 0 0 0
  Ziegler p 0 0 0 0
  Bailey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 9 4
Tampa Bay 020 000 000251
Oakland 210 000 10x490
  Tampa Bay Rays IP H R ER BB SO
Davis  L(3-2) 5.0 6 3 3 2 3
  Cormier   1.2 2 1 1 0 1
  Balfour   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Benoit   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
4
4
2
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Sheets  W(2-3) 6.1 4 2 2 3 8
  Wuertz   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Blevins   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Ziegler   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Bailey  SV(6) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
3
10

  E–Davis (1).  DP–Tampa Bay 1. Zobrist-Bartlett.  2B–Tampa Bay Bartlett (8,off Sheets); Brignac (4,off Wuertz), Oakland Kouzmanoff (5,off Davis); Patterson (4,off Cormier).  3B–Oakland Sweeney (1,off Davis).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Pennington (3,off Cormier).  SF–Chavez (3,off Davis); Barton (2,off Davis).  Team–6.  SB–Upton (7,3rd base off Sheets/Powell).  U-HP–Todd Tichenor, 1B–Jim Wolf, 2B–Derryl Cousins, 3B–Jim Joyce.  T–2:31.  A–15,493.
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