Chicago White Sox vs Boston Red Sox
May 1, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 1, 1940 at Fenway Park. 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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Chicago White Sox 4, Boston Red Sox 12

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Kennedy 3b 4 2 1 1
Kuhel 1b 4 1 2 3
Kreevich cf 3 0 1 0
Wright rf 4 0 1 0
Appling ss 3 0 1 0
Solters lf 4 0 1 0
McNair 2b 3 0 1 0
Tresh c 2 0 0 0
  Turner c 2 0 0 0
Eaves p 1 0 0 0
  Appleton p 1 1 0 0
  Weiland p 0 0 0 0
  Rosenthal ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 8 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Finney rf 4 1 2 1
Cramer cf 5 2 1 1
Williams lf 4 3 2 1
Foxx 1b 2 2 1 3
Cronin ss 4 0 2 4
Doerr 2b 5 0 0 0
Tabor 3b 4 2 3 1
Desautels c 2 0 0 0
Grove p 1 1 1 0
  Hash p 2 1 1 0
Totals 33 12 13 11
Chicago 100 030 000480
Boston 013 412 10x12130
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eaves  L(0-2) 3.0 6 5 5 3 1
  Appleton   2.0 5 6 6 4 1
  Weiland   3.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
13
12
12
7
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Grove   4.0 7 4 4 4 1
  Hash  W(2-1) 5.0 1 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
6
2

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 2. McNair-Appling-Kuhel, Tresh-Kennedy, Boston 1. Cronin-Doerr-Foxx.  PB–Tresh (1), Turner (1).  2B–Boston Tabor 2 (3); Hash (2).  3B–Boston Finney (1).  HR–Chicago Kennedy (1,1st inning off Grove 0 on 0 out); Kuhel (3,5th inning off Grove 2 on), Boston Foxx (5,6th inning off Appleton 1 on).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Desautels (1); Grove (1).  Team–6.  CS–McNair (3); Foxx (2); Tabor (1).  U–Bill Summers, John Quinn, George Pipgras.  T–2:14.  A–6,800.
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