Minnesota Twins vs Oakland Athletics
May 8, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 8, 1968 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Minnesota Twins 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

Minnesota Twins 0, Oakland Athletics 4

Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Tovar 3b 3 0 0 0
Carew 2b 3 0 0 0
Killebrew 1b 3 0 0 0
Oliva rf 3 0 0 0
Uhlaender cf 3 0 0 0
Allison lf 3 0 0 0
Hernandez ss 2 0 0 0
  Roseboro ph 1 0 0 0
Look c 3 0 0 0
Boswell p 2 0 0 0
  Perranoski p 0 0 0 0
  Reese ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 27 0 0 0
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 4 0 2 0
Jackson rf 4 0 0 0
Bando 3b 3 0 1 0
Webster 1b 4 1 2 0
Donaldson 2b 3 0 0 0
Pagliaroni c 3 1 0 0
Monday cf 3 2 2 0
Rudi lf 3 0 0 0
  Robinson ph 0 0 0 0
  Cater ph 0 0 0 1
  Hershberger lf 0 0 0 0
Hunter p 4 0 3 3
Totals 31 4 10 4
Minnesota 000 000 000001
Oakland 000 000 13x4100
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Boswell  L (3-3) 7.2 9 4 4 5 6
  Perranoski   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
4
4
5
6
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Hunter  W (3-2) 9.0 0 0 0 0 11
Totals
9.0
0
0
0
0
11

  E–Boswell (2).  DP–Minnesota 2.  2B–Oakland Hunter (2,off Boswell); Monday (3,off Boswell).  HBP–Donaldson (1,by Boswell).  SB–Campaneris (10,2nd base off Boswell/Look).  CS–Monday (1,2nd base by Boswell/Look).  WP–Boswell 2 (4).  HBP–Boswell (1,Donaldson).  U-HP–Jerry Neudecker, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–Al Salerno, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–2:28.  A–6,298.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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