Boston Red Sox vs Chicago White Sox
July 23, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 23, 1940 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Boston Red 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 7, Chicago White Sox 8

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
DiMaggio rf 5 0 1 0
Cramer cf 5 0 2 0
Cronin ss 5 1 1 0
Foxx 1b 0 0 0 0
  Owen pr,1b 3 1 0 0
Williams lf 4 2 1 1
Doerr 2b 4 1 1 0
Tabor 3b 4 1 2 3
Desautels c 3 0 3 0
  Peacock pr,c 1 1 0 0
Hash p 2 0 0 0
  Mustaikis p 1 0 1 2
  Heving p 0 0 0 0
  Finney ph 1 0 0 0
  Wilson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 7 12 6
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Webb 2b 5 0 1 0
Kreevich cf 4 2 2 1
Kuhel 1b 5 2 2 0
Solters lf 4 3 3 5
Wright rf 5 0 2 1
Appling ss 3 0 0 0
Tresh c 5 0 1 1
Kennedy 3b 4 1 2 0
Lee p 2 0 1 0
  Silvestri ph 1 0 0 0
  Appleton p 1 0 1 0
Totals 39 8 15 8
Boston 013 001 2007121
Chicago 000 102 4018152
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Hash   5.1 8 3 3 0 0
  Mustaikis   1.1 4 4 4 0 1
  Heving   1.1 2 0 0 2 1
  Wilson  L(4-4) 0.1 1 1 1 2 0
Totals
8.1
15
8
8
4
2
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Lee   7.0 12 7 7 5 2
  Appleton  W(3-0) 2.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
12
7
7
6
2

  E–Williams (8), Solters 2 (6).  DP–Chicago 2. Appling-Webb-Kuhel, Appling-Webb-Kuhel.  2B–Boston Cramer 2 (18); Desautels (7), Chicago Kuhel (14); Solters (16); Kennedy (18).  HR–Boston Tabor (13,2nd inning off Lee 0 on), Chicago Solters (7,6th inning off Hash 1 on).  SH–Hash (3).  Team LOB–11.  Team–10.  SB–Webb (2).  U–George Pipgras, Red Ormsby, Bill Summers.  T–2:37.  A–4,810.
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