Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 4, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 4, 1969 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 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 4 0 0 0
Stanley ss 6 0 1 0
Kaline rf 5 1 2 0
Freehan c 5 0 0 0
Cash 1b 3 1 1 0
Horton lf 5 0 1 0
Northrup cf 4 0 3 2
Tracewski 3b 2 0 0 0
  Price ph 1 0 0 0
  Wert 3b 0 0 0 0
Dobson p 4 0 0 0
  McLain p 0 0 0 0
  Woods ph 0 0 0 0
  McMahon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 2 8 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Thomas 1b 3 1 1 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
Andrews 2b 5 0 0 0
Yastrzemski cf 3 0 0 0
Conigliaro rf 4 0 0 1
Smith lf 3 1 1 0
Gibson c 2 0 0 0
  Lahoud ph,1b 1 1 0 0
Petrocelli ss 4 1 1 2
Scott 3b 4 0 1 0
Nagy p 2 0 0 0
  Schofield ph 1 0 1 1
  Azcue c 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 5 4
Detroit 000 000 020 00281
Boston 100 000 001 02450
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Dobson   8.2 4 2 2 8 5
  McLain   1.1 0 0 0 0 1
  McMahon  L (0-2) 0.1 1 2 2 1 0
Totals
10.1
5
4
4
9
6
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nagy   9.0 7 2 2 7 3
  Lyle  W (1-0) 2.0 1 0 0 2 4
Totals
11.0
8
2
2
9
7

  E–Horton (2).  DP–Detroit 1, Boston 2.  PB–Gibson (1).  2B–Detroit Northrup (4,off Nagy), Boston Smith (6,off Dobson).  3B–Detroit Northrup (1,off Nagy), Boston Thomas (1,off Dobson).  HR–Boston Petrocelli (7,11th inning off McMahon 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Tracewski (1,off Nagy); Thomas (1,off Dobson).  SF–T Conigliaro (2,off Dobson).  SB–Yastrzemski (2,2nd base off Dobson/Freehan).  CS–Smith (2,2nd base by Dobson/Freehan).  WP–Lyle (2).  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Don Denkinger, 2B–Bob Stewart, 3B–Marty Springstead.  T–3:04.  A–33,515.
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