Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
September 8, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 8, 1961 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 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

Detroit Tigers 2, Boston Red Sox 9

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Wood 2b 5 0 0 0
Bruton cf 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 3 1 0 0
Colavito lf 1 0 1 0
Cash 1b 3 0 0 0
McAuliffe ss 3 0 0 0
Boros 3b 3 0 0 1
Brown c 4 1 1 1
Bunning p 1 0 0 0
  Foytack p 1 0 0 0
  Aguirre p 0 0 0 0
  Regan p 0 0 0 0
  Montejo p 0 0 0 0
  Osborne ph 1 0 0 0
  Koplitz p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 2 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Schilling 2b 5 0 1 0
Geiger cf 5 1 1 0
Yastrzemski lf 5 0 2 1
Malzone 3b 4 0 1 0
Jensen rf 4 0 0 0
Runnels 1b 4 2 3 0
Green ss 3 2 1 0
Pagliaroni c 4 3 3 5
Stallard p 2 0 1 0
  Fornieles p 2 1 1 2
Totals 38 9 14 8
Detroit 010 010 000222
Boston 001 203 30x9140
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning  L (15-11) 3.1 8 3 2 0 2
  Foytack   2.1 2 3 3 1 0
  Aguirre   0.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Regan   0.1 2 3 3 1 0
  Montejo   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Koplitz   1.0 1 0 0 2 2
Totals
8.0
14
9
8
5
6
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Stallard   4.2 1 2 2 10 2
  Fornieles  W (9-8) 4.1 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
2
2
2
10
3

  E–Brown (4), Bunning (3).  DP–Detroit 1.  2B–Boston Pagliaroni (14,off Bunning); Geiger (19,off Foytack); Malzone (18,off Koplitz).  HR–Detroit Brown (12,2nd inning off Stallard 0 on, 2 out), Boston Fornieles (1,6th inning off Foytack 1 on, 1 out); Pagliaroni (14,7th inning off Regan 2 on, 0 out).  Team LOB–10.  HBP–Pagliaroni (3,by Foytack).  Team–11.  SB–Kaline (14,2nd base off Stallard/Pagliaroni).  CS–Yastrzemski (5,2nd base by Bunning/Brown).  HBP–Foytack (1,Pagliaroni).  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Al Smith, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–3:11.  A–18,525.
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