Los Angeles Angels vs Boston Red Sox
April 17, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 17, 1961 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Los Angeles Angels 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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Los Angeles Angels 2, Boston Red Sox 3

Los Angeles Angels ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 4 0 0 0
Aspromonte 2b 3 0 1 0
Wagner rf 3 0 0 0
Kluszewski 1b 4 1 1 0
Cerv lf 4 0 0 0
Hunt cf 4 0 1 0
Brickell ss 2 0 1 0
  Bilko ph 1 0 1 1
  Hamlin pr,ss 0 0 0 0
  Pearson ph 1 1 1 1
Rice c 1 0 0 0
  Throneberry ph 0 0 0 0
  Sadowski c 0 0 0 0
  Burke ph 1 0 0 0
McBride p 2 0 0 0
  Moeller p 0 0 0 0
  Clevenger p 0 0 0 0
  Becquer ph 1 0 0 0
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
  Averill ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Schilling 2b 3 0 1 0
Geiger cf 2 2 1 1
Wertz 1b 2 0 0 0
  Harrell pr,3b 1 0 1 0
Jensen rf 4 1 1 1
Yastrzemski lf 4 0 0 0
Runnels 3b,1b 3 0 1 0
Nixon c 2 0 1 0
  Repulski ph 1 0 0 0
  Pagliaroni c 1 0 0 0
Green ss 1 0 0 1
Brewer p 3 0 0 0
  Fornieles p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 3 6 3
Los Angeles 000 000 101260
Boston 000 002 10x360
  Los Angeles Angels IP H R ER BB SO
McBride  L (0-1) 5.0 4 2 2 5 2
  Moeller   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Clevenger   0.2 0 0 0 1 0
  Morgan   2.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
6
3
3
7
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Brewer  W (1-0) 6.2 5 1 1 1 0
  Fornieles  SV (1) 2.1 1 1 1 1 2
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
2
2

  E–None.  DP–Los Angeles 2, Boston 1.  2B–Los Angeles Hunt (1,off Brewer); Aspromonte (1,off Brewer); Kluszewski (1,off Brewer); Bilko (1,off Brewer).  HR–Los Angeles Pearson (1,9th inning off Fornieles 0 on, 1 out), Boston Geiger (1,7th inning off Morgan 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Rice (2,off Brewer).  HBP–Aspromonte (1,by Fornieles).  Team LOB–7.  Team–7.  CS–Schilling (1,2nd base by McBride/Rice).  WP–Fornieles (1).  HBP–Fornieles (1,Aspromonte).  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Bill Kinnamon, 2B–Eddie Hurley, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–2:45.  A–5,289.
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