Philadelphia Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
April 30, 1917 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 30, 1917 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Philadelphia 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)
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Philadelphia Athletics 3, Boston Red Sox 6

Philadelphia Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Witt ss 5 2 3 0
Grover 2b 4 0 1 0
Bodie lf 3 0 0 0
Strunk cf 4 0 1 2
Thrasher rf 4 0 1 0
McInnis 1b 4 0 1 0
Bates 3b 3 0 0 0
Schang c 4 0 0 0
Johnson p 1 0 0 0
  Seibold p 3 1 3 0
Totals 35 3 10 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Hooper rf 5 1 3 1
Barry 2b 3 0 1 2
Hoblitzell 1b 3 0 0 0
Lewis lf 4 0 0 0
Walker cf 4 1 2 0
Gardner 3b 4 1 1 0
Scott ss 3 1 2 0
Thomas c 4 1 1 1
Ruth p 4 1 2 2
Totals 34 6 12 6
Philadelphia 100 000 0203103
Boston 131 000 01x6120
  Philadelphia Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson  L(2-1) 2.0 6 4 1 0 0
  Seibold   6.0 6 2 2 2 1
Totals
8.0
6
2
2
2
1
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ruth  W(5-0) 9.0 10 3 2 2 2
Totals
9.0
10
3
2
2
2

  E–McInnis (4), Bates 2 (6).  PB–Thomas (1).  2B–Philadelphia Strunk (5), Boston Hooper (2).  3B–Boston Hooper (1).  SH–Grover (7); Barry (8); Hoblitzell (6).  Team LOB–10.  Team–8.  U–Barry McCormick, Tommy Connolly.  T–1:48.  A–2,049.
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