Chicago White Sox vs Boston Red Sox
April 23, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 23, 1971 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White 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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Chicago White Sox 1, Boston Red Sox 7

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Johnstone cf 4 1 1 0
Andrews 2b 4 0 1 0
May 1b 4 0 2 1
Melton 3b 4 0 1 0
McKinney rf 4 0 0 0
Reichardt lf 4 0 3 0
Herrmann c 4 0 1 0
Alvarado ss 2 0 1 0
  Stroud ph 1 0 0 0
  Morales ss 1 0 1 0
John p 1 0 0 0
  Kealey p 0 0 0 0
  Williams ph 1 0 0 0
  Forster p 0 0 0 0
  Magnuson p 0 0 0 0
  Maye ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 11 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Kennedy ss 3 2 2 0
Smith rf 3 1 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 3 2 1 1
Petrocelli 3b 2 0 0 2
Scott 1b 3 1 1 3
Josephson c 4 0 1 1
Conigliaro cf 4 0 0 0
Griffin 2b 4 0 1 0
Siebert p 2 1 1 0
Totals 28 7 7 7
Chicago 100 000 0001110
Boston 400 030 00x770
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
John  L (1-4) 4.1 5 7 7 3 2
  Kealey   1.2 2 0 0 1 1
  Forster   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Magnuson   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
7
7
4
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Siebert  W (3-0) 9.0 11 1 1 0 5
Totals
9.0
11
1
1
0
5

  E–None.  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Boston Yastrzemski (4,off John).  3B–Boston Kennedy (1,off John).  HR–Boston Scott (1,1st inning off John 2 on, 1 out).  SH–John (2,off Siebert); Siebert (1,off John).  SF–Petrocelli 2 (2,off John,off Kealey).  IBB–Scott (2,by Kealey).  IBB–Kealey (1,Scott).  U-HP–George Maloney, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Larry Barnett, 3B–Merlyn Anthony.  T–2:10.  A–12,261.
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