New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox
May 17, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1968 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees 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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New York Yankees 4, Boston Red Sox 6

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Howser 2b 4 0 1 2
White cf 4 0 2 0
Mantle 1b 4 0 1 0
Pepitone lf 2 0 0 0
Kosco rf 4 0 0 0
Tresh ss 4 0 0 0
Gibbs c 4 3 3 0
Cox 3b 4 0 2 1
Monbouquette p 2 1 1 1
  Verbanic p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 10 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Andrews 2b 4 0 3 3
Foy 3b 4 0 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 4 0 1 0
Smith cf 2 1 0 0
Harrelson rf 3 1 1 0
Scott 1b 4 1 3 1
Adair ss 3 1 2 1
  Tartabull pr 0 0 0 0
  Petrocelli ss 1 0 1 1
Howard c 3 1 0 0
Bell p 1 0 0 0
  Jones ph 1 1 0 0
  Lyle p 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 11 6
New York 001 010 2004102
Boston 000 020 22x6110
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Monbouquette  L (4-3) 7.1 11 6 6 4 4
  Verbanic   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
6
6
4
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Bell   7.0 9 4 4 2 2
  Lyle  W (2-0) 2.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
2
4

  E–Howser (1), Kosco (4).  DP–New York 3, Boston 1.  2B–New York Monbouquette (1,off Bell), Boston Scott (2,off Monbouquette); Andrews (6,off Monbouquette).  3B–New York Gibbs (1,off Bell).  SH–Monbouquette (2,off Bell); Bell (1,off Monbouquette).  IBB–Pepitone (1,by Bell); Smith (3,by Monbouquette).  SB–Gibbs 2 (4,2nd base off Bell/Howard,3rd base off Bell/Howard).  CS–Howser (1,2nd base by Bell/Howard); White (4,2nd base by Bell/Howard).  WP–Bell 2 (2).  IBB–Monbouquette (1,Smith); Bell (2,Pepitone).  U-HP–Russ Goetz, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Bill Kinnamon.  T–2:25.  A–35,253.
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