The California Angels couldn't pull it off against the Oakland Athletics, 4 to 3, on September 4, 1973.

1973 California Angels

Final

OAK

Athletics

80-57

4

CAL

Angels

62-71

3

OAK

CAL

1

1

0

2

0

0

3

0

0

4

1

1

5

0

0

6

0

0

7

0

0

8

1

1

9

1

1

R

4

3

H

9

7

E

1

2

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Bill North CF 4 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0
Bert Campaneris SS 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Sal Bando 3B 4 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 5
Reggie Jackson RF 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1
Deron Johnson DH 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0
Allan Lewis PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Pat Bourque PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gene Tenace 1B 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Jesus Alou LF 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ray Fosse C 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dick Green 2B 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
Totals 33 4 9 4 0 3 9 2 1 13

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Ken Holtzman (W) 7.0 5 2 2 3 5 0
Rollie Fingers 1.0 1 1 1 2 2 0
Darold Knowles 0.1 1 0 0 1 0 0
Horacio Pina (S) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 9.0 7 3 3 6 7 0

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Sandy Alomar Sr. 2B 5 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
Vada Pinson LF 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Richie Scheinblum PH 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Rudy Meoli PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frank Robinson DH 3 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
Bob Oliver 3B 3 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
Mickey Rivers PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Al Gallagher 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Charlie Sands PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mike Epstein 1B 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Leroy Stanton RF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Ken Berry CF 4 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
Jeff Torborg C 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Tom McCraw PH 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Dave Chalk SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Winston Llenas PH 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Billy Parker PR 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 7 3 0 6 7 1 0 7

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Bill Singer (L) 8.1 9 4 4 3 8 0
Dave Sells 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 9.0 9 4 4 3 9 0

Explore