St. Louis Browns vs Boston Red Sox
August 4, 1953 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 4, 1953 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Browns 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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St. Louis Browns 2, Boston Red Sox 6

St. Louis Browns ab   r   h rbi
Groth cf 4 1 1 0
Berry 2b 3 0 0 0
  Young 2b 0 0 0 0
Sievers 1b 4 0 1 2
Lenhardt lf 3 0 1 0
Dyck rf 4 0 0 0
Moss c 4 0 1 0
Stephens 3b 3 0 1 0
Hunter ss 3 0 1 0
Pillette p 2 1 1 0
  Paige p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 7 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 4 2 2 0
Olson lf 4 1 1 1
Gernert 1b 2 1 1 1
Kell 3b 3 1 1 0
White c 3 0 0 0
  Baker ph 1 1 1 3
  Lepcio ss 0 0 0 0
Umphlett cf 4 0 1 1
Piersall rf 4 0 1 0
Lipon ss 2 0 0 0
  Wilber ph,c 1 0 0 0
McDermott p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 8 6
St. Louis 000 002 000271
Boston 000 100 05x680
  St. Louis Browns IP H R ER BB SO
Pillette  L(4-8) 7.2 7 6 6 3 6
  Paige   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
6
6
3
6
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
McDermott  W(11-7) 9.0 7 2 2 3 1
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
3
1

  E–Berry (10).  DP–St. Louis 1. Berry-Sievers, Boston 2. Kell-Goodman-Gernert, Kell-Goodman-Gernert.  2B–St. Louis Sievers (11,off McDermott), Boston Goodman (20,off Pillette); Olson (1,off Pillette); Baker (4,off Pillette).  3B–Boston Umphlett (4,off Paige).  SH–Pillette (2,off McDermott).  Team LOB–5.  Team–4.  CS–Berry (1,2nd base by McDermott/White); Gernert (4,2nd base by Pillette/Moss).  U-HP–Grover Froese, 1B–Johnny Stevens, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:19.  A–12,318.
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