The Oakland Athletics came up just a bit short against the Boston Red Sox, 8 to 7, on July 14, 1979.

Final

Red Sox

55-32

8

Athletics

25-68

7

BOS

OAK

Summary

Player Stats

Top 1st

BOS

OAK

Single by Tom Poquette; Rick Burleson scored.

Top 2nd

BOS

OAK

Single by Rick Burleson; Bob Watson scored.

Top 4th

BOS

OAK

Home run by Butch Hobson; Bob Watson scored.

Bottom 5th

BOS

OAK

Double by Jim Essian; Dave Revering scored.

Single by Rickey Henderson; Mike Heath scored.

Top 6th

BOS

OAK

Sacrifice fly by Butch Hobson; Bob Watson scored.

Bottom 6th

BOS

OAK

Wild pitchSome( by Mike Torrez); Jim Essian scored.

Single by Mike Edwards; Mike Heath and Tony Armas scored.

Bottom 8th

BOS

OAK

Home run by Tony Armas; Larry Murray scored.

Top 9th

BOS

OAK

Single by Jim Rice; Larry Wolfe scored.

Single by Carl Yastrzemski; Jim Dwyer scored.

Sacrifice fly by Carlton Fisk; Jim Rice scored.

Red Sox

Athletics

Batters

Player	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO
Rick Burleson SS R. Burleson	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
Jack Brohamer 2B J. Brohamer	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Larry Wolfe PH,2B L. Wolfe	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Tom Poquette CF T. Poquette	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Montgomery PH B. Montgomery	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Dwyer PH,CF J. Dwyer	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Rice LF J. Rice	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski DH C. Yastrzemski	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	0
Bob Watson 1B B. Watson	3	3	2	0	0	0	2	0
Carlton Fisk C C. Fisk	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Butch Hobson 3B B. Hobson	4	1	1	0	1	3	0	2
Dwight Evans RF D. Evans	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	1
Totals	36	8	10	1	1	8	7	4

Pitchers

Player	GS	W	SO	CG	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	GSc
Mike Torrez M. Torrez	1	0	4	0	0	5.2	7	5	5	0	2	37
Allen Ripley (W) A. Ripley	0	1	1	0	0	2.1	1	2	2	1	2
Dick Drago D. Drago	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	1
Bill Campbell (S) B. Campbell	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		1	5		1	9.0	8	7	7	1	5

Batters

Player	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO
Rickey Henderson CF R. Henderson	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
Dave Chalk 3B D. Chalk	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitchell Page DH M. Page	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Dave Revering 1B D. Revering	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
Jim Essian C J. Essian	3	1	1	1	0	1	1	0
Mike Heath LF M. Heath	3	2	2	0	0	0	1	0
Larry Murray PR,LF L. Murray	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tony Armas RF T. Armas	3	2	1	0	1	2	1	0
Mike Edwards 2B M. Edwards	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	1
Milt Ramirez SS M. Ramirez	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Newman PH J. Newman	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Rob Picciolo SS R. Picciolo	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	35	7	8	2	1	6	5	5

Pitchers

Player	GS	L	SO	CG	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	GSc
Brian Kingman B. Kingman	1	0	1	0	5.0	5	4	5	1	3	37
Dave Heaverlo D. Heaverlo	0	0	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	3
Dave Hamilton D. Hamilton	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	1	0	0
Steve McCatty (L) S. McCatty	0	1	0	0	0.0	2	2	2	0	0
Jim Todd J. Todd	0	0	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1
Totals		1	4		9.0	10	7	8	1	7