Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
July 16, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 16, 1972 at Metropolitan Stadium. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Minnesota Twins 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 6, Minnesota Twins 1

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Harper cf 5 0 1 0
Griffin 2b 5 0 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 4 2 2 0
Smith rf 4 1 2 2
Petrocelli 3b 2 2 0 0
Fisk c 5 0 2 1
Cater 1b 3 1 1 3
Kennedy ss 4 0 1 0
Pattin p 4 0 2 0
Totals 36 6 11 6
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Tovar rf 4 0 1 0
  LaRoche p 0 0 0 0
Thompson ss 4 0 1 1
Carew 2b 4 0 0 0
Killebrew 1b 3 0 1 0
Manuel lf 4 0 0 0
Darwin cf 3 0 0 0
Braun 3b 3 0 0 0
Roof c 2 1 1 0
  Renick ph 1 0 0 0
  Borgmann c 0 0 0 0
Blyleven p 2 0 0 0
  Nettles ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 4 1
Boston 000 103 0206110
Minnesota 001 000 000141
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Pattin  W (7-8) 9.0 4 1 1 1 5
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
1
5
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Blyleven  L (9-11) 8.0 11 6 5 2 7
  LaRoche   1.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
9.0
11
6
5
4
7

  E–Blyleven (2).  DP–Minnesota 1.  2B–Boston Fisk (19,off Blyleven); Pattin (2,off Blyleven), Minnesota Roof (8,off Pattin).  3B–Minnesota Thompson (3,off Pattin).  HR–Boston Smith (11,6th inning off Blyleven 1 on, 0 out); Cater (6,8th inning off Blyleven 1 on, 1 out).  SF–Cater (6,off Blyleven).  HBP–Petrocelli (2,by Blyleven).  HBP–Blyleven (6,Petrocelli).  U-HP–Jim Odom, 1B–Don Denkinger, 2B–Ron Luciano, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:22.  A–18,222.
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