Boston Red Sox vs Philadelphia Athletics
August 31, 1952 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1952 at Shibe Park. The Philadelphia Athletics 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, Philadelphia Athletics 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
DiMaggio cf 3 0 1 0
  Schmees pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Goodman 2b 4 0 1 0
Vollmer lf 3 0 1 0
Kell 3b 3 0 2 0
  Lepcio pr 0 0 0 0
Gernert 1b 4 0 0 0
Evers rf,cf 4 0 1 0
Wilber c 3 0 0 0
Lipon ss 3 0 0 0
Nixon p 3 0 1 0
Totals 30 0 7 0
Philadelphia Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Joost ss 3 1 2 0
Fain 1b 2 0 1 1
Philley cf 3 0 0 0
Zernial lf 3 1 1 1
Clark rf 3 0 1 0
  Valo rf 0 0 0 0
Michaels 2b 2 0 0 0
Hitchcock 3b 2 0 1 0
Murray c 3 0 0 0
Byrd p 2 0 0 0
Totals 23 2 6 2
Boston 000 000 000070
Philadelphia 010 001 00x260
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nixon  L(4-4) 8.0 6 2 2 7 5
Totals
8.0
6
2
2
7
5
  Philadelphia Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Byrd  W(13-11) 9.0 7 0 0 2 4
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
2
4

  E–None.  DP–Boston 4. Lipon-Goodman-Gernert, Goodman-Lipon-Gernert, Kell-Goodman-Gernert, Nixon-Goodman-Gernert, Philadelphia 3. Joost-Michaels-Fain, Michaels-Fain, Joost-Michaels-Fain.  2B–Philadelphia Fain (39,off Nixon).  3B–Boston Vollmer (3,off Byrd).  HR–Philadelphia Zernial (27,2nd inning off Nixon 0 on 0 out).  SH–DiMaggio (2,off Byrd).  Team LOB–6.  Team–4.  CS–Fain (6,2nd base by Nixon/Wilber); Clark (1,2nd base by Nixon/Wilber).  U-HP–Bill McGowan, 1B–Eddie Hurley, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Larry Napp.  T–2:04.  A–20,923.
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