Oakland Athletics vs Chicago White Sox
August 21, 1990 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1990 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White 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

Oakland Athletics 1, Chicago White Sox 4

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Lansford 3b 4 1 0 0
Blankenship lf 1 0 0 0
  Jennings ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Canseco dh 4 0 1 0
McGwire 1b 3 0 0 1
Jose rf 4 0 2 0
Steinbach c 4 0 1 0
Randolph 2b 4 0 0 0
Gallego ss 3 0 1 0
Lewis cf 2 0 2 0
Moore p 0 0 0 0
  Honeycutt p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 7 1
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Johnson cf 4 0 1 0
Fletcher 2b 4 0 1 0
Calderon lf 4 0 0 0
Pasqua dh 3 0 1 0
  Bradley pr,dh 1 1 0 0
Thomas 1b 3 1 1 0
Sosa rf 3 0 0 0
Karkovice c 2 1 0 0
Grebeck 3b 1 0 1 0
  Ventura ph 0 0 0 0
  Fisk ph 1 0 1 3
  Lyons pr,3b 0 1 0 0
Guillen ss 2 0 0 1
Hibbard p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
  Thigpen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 4 6 4
Oakland 100 000 000170
Chicago 000 000 40x461
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Moore  L (10-12) 6.1 3 3 3 4 2
  Honeycutt   0.1 3 1 1 0 0
  Nelson   1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
6
4
4
4
3
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Hibbard  W (10-7) 7.0 7 1 0 1 2
  Jones   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Thigpen  SV (41) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
1
0
1
4

  E–Guillen (10).  DP–Oakland 1, Chicago 1.  2B–Chicago Thomas (6,off Moore); Pasqua (20,off Moore); Fisk (14,off Honeycutt).  SH–Blankenship (6,off Hibbard); Lewis (1,off Hibbard); Guillen (11,off Honeycutt).  SF–McGwire (8,off Hibbard).  SB–Sosa (22,2nd base off Moore/Steinbach).  U-HP–Dave Phillips, 1B–John Hirschbeck, 2B–Larry McCoy, 3B–Chuck Meriwether.  T–2:56.  A–31,172.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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