Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees
May 23, 1947 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 23, 1947 at Yankee Stadium I. The New York Yankees 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Boston Red Sox 0, New York Yankees 9

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Pesky 3b 4 0 0 0
DiMaggio cf 4 0 0 0
Williams lf 1 0 0 0
York 1b 3 0 0 0
Doerr 2b 4 0 0 0
Mele rf 4 0 0 0
Pellagrini ss 3 0 0 0
Tebbetts c 3 0 1 0
Dorish p 1 0 0 0
  Goodman ph 1 0 1 0
  Parnell p 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 2 0
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Stirnweiss 2b 4 1 3 0
Henrich rf 4 1 1 2
Keller lf 2 2 2 2
DiMaggio cf 4 1 1 0
McQuinn 1b 4 2 2 0
Brown 3b 3 1 1 1
Robinson c 2 0 0 0
  Lindell ph 1 0 0 0
  Houk c 1 0 1 2
Rizzuto ss 4 0 0 0
Reynolds p 4 1 1 0
Totals 33 9 12 7
Boston 000 000 000021
New York 000 041 04x9120
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Dorish  L(4-2) 5.0 7 4 4 1 1
  Parnell   3.0 5 5 4 1 1
Totals
8.0
12
9
8
2
2
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Reynolds  W(4-3) 9.0 2 0 0 4 4
Totals
9.0
2
0
0
4
4

  E–Tebbetts (1).  DP–Boston 2. Pellagrini-Doerr-York, Doerr-York.  2B–New York Keller (5); Reynolds (1).  HR–New York Keller (9,5th inning off Dorish 1 on).  Team LOB–6.  HBP–Brown (1).  Team–3.  U-HP–Bill McGowan, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Bill Grieve, 3B–Red Jones.  T–2:00.  A–25,496.
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