Boston Red Sox vs Los Angeles Angels
June 22, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 22, 1961 at Wrigley Field. 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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Boston Red Sox 3, Los Angeles Angels 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Schilling 2b 3 1 1 1
Geiger cf 4 0 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 5 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 2 1 0 0
Jensen rf 4 0 1 2
Malzone 3b 2 0 0 0
Nixon c 4 1 0 0
Buddin ss 3 0 1 0
Cisco p 2 0 0 0
  Fornieles p 2 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 3 3
Los Angeles Angels ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 2 1 0 0
Thomas rf 3 0 1 1
Wagner lf 3 0 0 1
Kluszewski 1b 4 0 0 0
Hunt cf 3 0 0 0
Aspromonte 2b 3 0 0 0
Rice c 0 0 0 0
  Sadowski c 3 0 0 0
Koppe ss 3 1 1 0
Duren p 1 0 0 0
  Pearson ph 0 0 0 0
  James p 0 0 0 0
  Bilko ph 1 0 0 0
  Fowler p 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 2 2 2
Boston 200 100 000331
Los Angeles 100 010 000222
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Cisco   4.0 2 2 1 6 1
  Fornieles  W (5-3) 5.0 0 0 0 1 4
Totals
9.0
2
2
1
7
5
  Los Angeles Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Duren  L (2-8) 5.0 3 3 3 5 8
  James   2.0 0 0 0 1 1
  Fowler   2.0 0 0 0 2 2
Totals
9.0
3
3
3
8
11

  E–Wertz (5), Aspromonte (11), Duren (2).  DP–Boston 2, Los Angeles 1.  PB–Nixon (4); Sadowski (2).  IBB–Buddin (4,by Fowler).  Team LOB–9.  SF–Wagner (4,off Cisco).  Team–5.  SB–Schilling (5,2nd base off Duren/Rice).  CS–Buddin (1,2nd base by Duren/Rice).  WP–Duren (1).  IBB–Fowler (1,Buddin).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Al Smith.  T–3:00.  A–5,075.
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