The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 1, 1986 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins 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)
Oakland Athletics 1, Minnesota Twins 10
Oakland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
Minnesota | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | x | – | 10 | 10 | 1 |
Oakland Athletics | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Young L (7-7) | 4.1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
Akerfelds | 3.2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Totals | 8.0 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 7 |
Minnesota Twins | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Blyleven W (10-10) | 9.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
Totals | 9.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
E –Phillips (12), Gaetti (18). 2B –Minnesota Lombardozzi (18,off Young); Puckett (26,off Young); Laudner (8,off Akerfelds). 3B –Minnesota Puckett (5,off Young). HR –Oakland Griffin (3,8th inning off Blyleven 0 on, 2 out), Minnesota Gaetti (22,4th inning off Young 0 on, 0 out); Brunansky (19,7th inning off Akerfelds 0 on, 0 out); Puckett (22,8th inning off Akerfelds 1 on, 1 out). SF –Gaetti (5,off Young). HBP –Laudner (3,by Young). WP –Young 2 (4). HBP –Young (5,Laudner). U-HP –Ken Kaiser, 1B –Dale Scott, 2B –Steve Palermo, 3B –Terry Cooney. T –2:25. A –14,855. |
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Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."