New York Mets vs Oakland Athletics
October 21, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 21, 1973 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the New York Mets 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

New York Mets 2, Oakland Athletics 5

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Garrett 3b 5 0 0 0
Millan 2b 4 1 1 0
Staub rf 4 0 2 1
Jones lf 3 0 0 0
Milner 1b 3 1 0 0
Grote c 4 0 1 0
Hahn cf 4 0 3 0
Harrelson ss 4 0 0 0
Matlack p 1 0 0 0
  Parker p 0 0 0 0
  Beauchamp ph 1 0 0 0
  Sadecki p 0 0 0 0
  Boswell ph 1 0 1 0
  Stone p 0 0 0 0
  Kranepool ph 1 0 0 0
  Martinez pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 8 1
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 4 2 3 2
Rudi lf 3 1 2 1
Bando 3b 4 0 0 0
Jackson cf,rf 4 1 1 2
Tenace c,1b 3 0 0 0
Alou rf 1 0 0 0
  Davalillo ph,cf 3 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 3 0 0 0
  Fosse c 1 0 1 0
Green 2b 4 0 0 0
Holtzman p 2 1 1 0
  Fingers p 1 0 1 0
  Knowles p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 9 5
New York 000 001 001281
Oakland 004 010 00x591
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  L (1-2) 2.2 4 4 4 1 3
  Parker   1.1 0 0 0 1 1
  Sadecki   2.0 2 1 1 0 1
  Stone   2.0 3 0 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
2
8
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Holtzman  W (2-1) 5.1 5 1 1 1 4
  Fingers   3.1 3 1 0 1 2
  Knowles  SV (2) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
2
1
2
6

  E–Jones (1), Tenace (2).  DP–Oakland 1.  2B–New York Millan (1,off Holtzman); Staub (2,off Holtzman), Oakland Holtzman (2,off Matlack).  HR–Oakland Campaneris (1,3rd inning off Matlack 1 on, 1 out); Jackson (1,3rd inning off Matlack 1 on, 2 out).  U–Marty Springstead (AL), Augie Donatelli (NL), Jerry Neudecker (AL), Paul Pryor (NL), Harry Wendelstedt (NL), Russ Goetz (AL).  T–2:37.  A–49,333.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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