Boston Red Sox vs Oakland Athletics
May 3, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 3, 1985 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Boston Red Sox 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Boston Red Sox 10, Oakland Athletics 0

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 5 0 3 2
  Hoffman 3b 1 0 0 0
Evans rf 3 1 1 0
  Lyons rf 1 0 0 0
Rice lf 4 1 1 2
  Miller ph,lf 0 0 0 0
Armas cf 4 2 2 0
  Nichols ph,cf 2 0 0 0
Easler dh 5 2 3 4
Buckner 1b 4 2 2 1
  Barrett pr,2b 0 0 0 0
Gedman c 6 1 2 1
Stapleton 2b,1b 4 1 1 0
Gutierrez ss 5 0 0 0
Boyd p 0 0 0 0
Totals 44 10 15 10
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Collins lf 5 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 3 0 2 0
  Picciolo 3b 2 0 1 0
Bochte 1b 3 0 1 0
Kingman dh 3 0 0 0
  Meyer ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Murphy cf 2 0 0 0
  Tettleton c 0 0 0 0
Heath c,rf 4 0 2 0
Davis rf,cf 4 0 0 0
Hill 2b 4 0 1 0
Griffin ss 3 0 0 0
  Gallego ss 0 0 0 0
  Henderson ph 1 0 1 0
Warren p 0 0 0 0
  Kaiser p 0 0 0 0
  Tellmann p 0 0 0 0
  Birtsas p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 0 8 0
Boston 000 172 00010151
Oakland 000 000 000082
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Boyd  W (3-1) 9.0 8 0 0 2 12
Totals
9.0
8
0
0
2
12
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Warren  L (1-3) 4.1 7 6 6 2 0
  Kaiser   0.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Tellmann   2.2 5 2 2 1 0
  Birtsas   2.0 1 0 0 5 3
Totals
9.0
15
10
10
8
3

  E–Gutierrez (2), Griffin 2 (6).  2B–Boston Armas (5,off Warren); Buckner (7,off Warren); Stapleton (1,off Kaiser); Evans (6,off Tellmann); Boggs (4,off Tellmann), Oakland Lansford (2,off Boyd).  HR–Boston Buckner (3,4th inning off Warren 0 on, 1 out); Rice (5,5th inning off Warren 1 on, 1 out); Easler 2 (6,5th inning off Warren 1 on, 1 out,6th inning off Tellmann 1 on, 0 out).  HBP–Murphy (1,by Boyd).  CS–Lansford (1,2nd base by Boyd/Gedman).  HBP–Boyd (2,Murphy).  T–3:07.  A–16,793.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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