Boston Red Sox vs Chicago White Sox
May 17, 1936 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1936 at Comiskey Park I. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 8, Chicago White Sox 7

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
McNair ss 5 1 3 1
Werber 3b 5 2 2 2
Manush lf 4 1 2 0
Foxx 1b 3 0 0 0
Cooke rf 4 0 1 1
Ferrell c 5 1 2 1
Cramer cf 4 2 1 0
Melillo 2b 2 1 0 0
  Almada ph 1 0 0 0
  Kroner 2b 0 0 0 0
Henry p 2 0 0 0
  Ostermueller p 1 0 0 0
  Wilson p 0 0 0 0
  Marcum ph,p 2 0 0 0
Totals 38 8 11 5
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Kreevich lf 4 1 0 0
Haas rf 4 1 2 1
Walker cf 5 0 0 2
Bonura 1b 4 0 1 0
Appling ss 4 0 1 2
Piet 2b 4 0 0 0
Dykes 3b 4 2 1 0
Sewell c 4 2 2 2
Whitehead p 1 0 1 0
  Phelps p 3 1 0 0
Totals 37 7 8 7
Boston 110 400 0118113
Chicago 100 204 000782
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Henry   3.2 5 3 2 3 1
  Ostermueller   2.0 2 4 1 1 0
  Wilson   1.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Marcum  W(2-2) 2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
7
3
5
3
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Whitehead   3.2 6 6 4 3 4
  Phelps  L(3-1) 5.1 5 2 2 4 1
Totals
9.0
11
8
6
7
5

  E–Werber (6), Cooke (1), Melillo (4), Appling (11), Whitehead (1).  2B–Boston McNair (6), Chicago Haas (11); Bonura (5); Sewell 2 (9).  HR–Boston Werber (2,8th inning off Phelps 0 on); R. Ferrell (4,9th inning off Phelps 0 on).  Team LOB–10.  Team–8.  SB–Werber (6); Foxx (3); Cramer (2).  CS–Manush (2).  U–Bill Summers, Charles Johnston, Brick Owens.  T–2:15.  A–23,000.
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