Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Athletics
June 3, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 3, 1955 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City 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)
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Boston Red Sox 3, Kansas City Athletics 4

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 5 0 1 0
Joost ss 4 1 1 0
Williams lf 3 0 1 0
Jensen rf 4 0 0 0
Zauchin 1b 4 1 3 2
White c 2 0 0 0
Lepcio 3b 4 1 2 1
Piersall cf 4 0 1 0
Delock p 2 0 0 0
  Klaus ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 9 3
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 3 0 1 1
Simpson cf 4 0 0 0
Valo rf 2 0 1 0
Zernial lf 4 0 0 0
Finigan 3b 4 0 0 0
Lopez 2b 3 0 1 0
Littrell ss 3 2 2 0
Shantz B. c 3 2 1 2
Shantz B. p 2 0 0 0
  Sain p 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 6 3
Boston 100 001 010393
Kansas City 000 020 20x460
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Delock  L(5-4) 8.0 6 4 3 3 3
Totals
8.0
6
4
3
3
3
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Shantz   5.0 5 1 1 3 5
  Sain  W(1-3) 4.0 4 2 2 1 0
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
4
5

  E–Joost (7), Jensen (2), White (8).  DP–Boston 2. Joost-Goodman-Zauchin, Joost-Goodman-Zauchin, Kansas City 1. Littrell-Lopez-Power.  2B–Boston Zauchin (4,off Bobby Shantz).  HR–Boston Zauchin (6,6th inning off Sain 0 on 0 out); Lepcio (5,8th inning off Sain 0 on 2 out)., Kansas City Billy Shantz (1,7th inning off Delock 1 on 1 out).  SH–Joost (1,off Sain).  IBB–White (3,by Bobby Shantz); Williams (1,by Sain)..  Team LOB–8.  Team–4.  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Red Flaherty, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Charlie Berry.
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