Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians
August 21, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1968 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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 2, Cleveland Indians 8

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Andrews 2b 4 0 0 0
Jones 1b 4 1 1 0
Yastrzemski lf 2 0 1 1
  Gibson c 0 0 0 0
Harrelson rf 4 0 0 0
  Waslewski p 0 0 0 0
Smith cf 4 0 3 1
Foy 3b 4 0 0 0
Adair ss 4 0 1 0
Howard c 2 0 0 0
  Tartabull ph,lf 2 1 2 0
Lonborg p 1 0 0 0
  Landis p 0 0 0 0
  Robinson ph,rf 2 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Cardenal cf 2 1 0 0
Nelson 2b 4 1 1 2
Maye lf 2 1 1 0
  Harper rf 1 0 0 0
Johnson rf,lf 4 1 1 1
Sims 1b 2 1 1 0
  Horton ph,1b 2 1 1 0
Azcue c 4 0 1 2
Salmon ss 3 1 1 2
Alvis 3b 3 1 0 0
Pina p 3 0 0 0
  Romo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 8 7 7
Boston 000 100 010280
Cleveland 000 080 00x871
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Lonborg  L (3-5) 4.2 5 7 7 2 2
  Landis   2.1 2 1 1 1 4
  Waslewski   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
7
8
8
4
6
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Pina  W (1-0) 8.2 8 2 1 2 7
  Romo  SV (7) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
2
1
2
7

  E–Alvis (11).  DP–Boston 1.  PB–Azcue (5).  3B–Cleveland Nelson (3,off Lonborg).  HR–Cleveland Salmon (3,5th inning off Lonborg 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Lonborg (3,off Pina).  HBP–Alvis (4,by Lonborg).  CS–Smith 2 (12,2nd base by Pina/Azcue 2).  WP–Landis 2 (6).  HBP–Lonborg (10,Alvis).  U-HP–Lou DiMuro, 1B–Marty Springstead, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Bob Stewart.  T–2:40.  A–8,991.
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