Baltimore Orioles vs Boston Red Sox
August 4, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 4, 1972 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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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Baltimore Orioles 0, Boston Red Sox 2

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Buford lf 3 0 0 0
Oates c 4 0 0 0
Grich ss 2 0 0 0
Powell 1b 3 0 1 0
Crowley rf 4 0 1 0
Robinson 3b 4 0 0 0
Rettenmund cf 2 0 0 0
Johnson 2b 3 0 0 0
Dobson p 2 0 0 0
  Shopay ph 1 0 0 0
  Alexander p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 2 0
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Harper cf 4 1 1 0
  Miller cf 0 0 0 0
Griffin 2b 3 0 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 2 0 1 0
Smith rf 2 0 0 0
Petrocelli 3b 4 0 1 1
Fisk c 3 1 1 0
Cater 1b 3 0 1 0
Aparicio ss 3 0 0 1
Pattin p 3 0 0 0
Totals 27 2 5 2
Baltimore 000 000 000020
Boston 000 011 00x250
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Dobson  L (12-11) 7.0 4 2 2 3 3
  Alexander   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
5
2
2
4
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Pattin  W (9-10) 9.0 2 0 0 5 5
Totals
9.0
2
0
0
5
5

  E–None.  DP–Baltimore 1, Boston 1.  2B–Baltimore Crowley (8,off Pattin).  SH–Griffin (13,off Dobson).  IBB–Smith (9,by Alexander).  SB–Yastrzemski (3,2nd base off Alexander/Oates).  WP–Pattin (3).  IBB–Alexander (6,Smith).  U-HP–Frank Umont, 1B–Jim Odom, 2B–Don Denkinger, 3B–Ron Luciano.  T–2:23.  A–31,852.
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