| Tiant shuts out A's |
| Louie Tiant scattered six hits over nine innings shutting out Oakland 3-0. Carl Yastrzemski hit a two run homer in the eighth inning for Boston |
| Outs: | 3 | Inning: | 9 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | R | H | E | |
| Away | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
| Home | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 | |||||||
| 1972 Oakland As | |||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | |
| Bert Campaneris | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Rudi | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sal Bando | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reggie Jackson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Mike Epstein | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dave Duncan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Angel Mangual | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Gene Tenace | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Larry Brown | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | ||
| Vida Blue | 7.3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Darold Knowles | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1972 Boston Red Sox | |||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | |
| Tommy Harper | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Luis Aparicio | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Rico Petrocelli | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Reggie Smith | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carl Yastrzemski | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Carlton Fisk | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Danny Cater | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Doug Griffin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Ben Oglivie | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | ||
| Luis Tiant | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |