Boston Red Sox vs Chicago White Sox
September 16, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 16, 1940 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 6, Chicago White Sox 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
DiMaggio cf 5 1 2 0
Cramer rf 4 3 1 0
Williams lf 5 0 2 2
Foxx 1b 3 0 0 0
Cronin 3b 3 1 0 0
Doerr 2b 3 0 1 0
Carey ss 4 1 1 2
Desautels c 4 0 1 1
Wilson p 4 0 1 0
Totals 35 6 9 5
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Webb 2b 3 0 0 0
  Kolloway 2b 1 0 0 0
Tresh c 4 2 2 0
Kuhel 1b 4 0 0 1
Solters lf 3 0 1 1
Appling ss 4 0 0 0
Rosenthal rf 3 0 1 0
Kreevich cf 3 0 0 0
Kennedy 3b 3 0 1 0
Dietrich p 1 0 0 0
  Appleton p 0 0 0 0
  Short ph 1 0 0 0
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 5 2
Boston 000 122 100690
Chicago 100 001 000255
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wilson  W(10-5) 9.0 5 2 2 2 5
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
2
5
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Dietrich  L(9-6) 6.0 8 5 3 3 1
  Appleton   2.0 1 1 0 0 0
  Brown   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
6
3
3
2

  E–Webb (13), Appling 2 (33), Rosenthal (5), Kreevich (7).  DP–Boston 2. Wilson-Doerr, Carey-Doerr-Foxx, Chicago 2. Kuhel-Appling-Kuhel, Appling-Webb-Kuhel.  2B–Boston DiMaggio (29), Chicago Solters (26); Kennedy (22).  3B–Boston Williams (13), Chicago Tresh (5).  SH–Doerr (6).  Team LOB–6.  Team–3.  U–Lou Kolls, Joe Rue, Harry Geisel.  T–1:53.  A–2,940.
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