Philadelphia Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
September 11, 1938 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 11, 1938 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Philadelphia Athletics 7, Boston Red Sox 12

Philadelphia Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Moses rf 4 1 1 0
Sperry 2b 5 1 1 0
Barna lf 4 2 1 1
Etten 1b 5 1 3 3
Johnson cf 4 1 1 1
Lodigiani 3b 3 0 0 0
Bartling ss 5 0 0 0
Wagner c 4 0 1 0
Caster p 0 0 0 0
  Gumpert p 1 1 0 0
  Buxton p 1 0 0 0
  Nelson ph 1 0 0 0
  Thomas p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 7 8 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Cramer cf 5 0 1 1
Vosmik lf 5 3 4 0
Foxx 1b 4 2 2 0
Cronin ss 4 2 3 2
  McNair ss 1 0 0 0
Higgins 3b 4 3 3 4
Chapman rf 4 1 1 2
Doerr 2b 5 1 3 2
Peacock c 5 0 2 1
Heving p 1 0 0 0
  Wilson p 3 0 0 0
Totals 41 12 19 12
Philadelphia 005 200 000782
Boston 303 122 01x12195
  Philadelphia Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Caster   1.0 2 3 3 1 0
  Gumpert   2.2 7 4 4 0 0
  Buxton  L(0-1) 3.1 8 4 4 1 3
  Thomas   1.0 2 1 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
19
12
11
2
3
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Heving   2.1 1 3 3 3 0
  Wilson  W(14-13) 6.2 7 4 3 3 6
Totals
9.0
8
7
6
6
6

  E–Moses (11), Lodigiani (19), Cronin (32), McNair (10), Higgins (34), Wilson 2 (3).  DP–Philadelphia 2. Wagner-Sperry, Johnson-Sperry.  PB–Peacock (2).  2B–Philadelphia Moses (25); Etten 2 (3); Johnson (27), Boston Cronin (44); Chapman (36).  HR–Boston Higgins (4,1st inning off Caster 2 on).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Higgins (5).  Team–8.  SB–Chapman (8).  CS–Peacock (1).  U–George Moriarty, Steve Basil.  T–2:20.  A–9,000.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook