Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees
September 12, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 12, 1972 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees 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, New York Yankees 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Harper cf 4 0 1 0
Aparicio ss 4 0 0 0
Yastrzemski 1b 4 1 1 0
Smith rf 1 0 0 0
  Oglivie rf 3 1 1 2
Petrocelli 3b 3 0 1 0
Fisk c 4 0 2 0
Kosco lf 4 0 0 0
Griffin 2b 3 0 0 0
Tiant p 2 0 0 0
  Peters p 0 0 0 0
  Gagliano ph 0 0 0 0
  Beniquez pr 0 0 0 0
  Newhauser p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Clarke 2b 4 0 0 0
White lf 4 0 2 1
Murcer cf 3 1 1 0
Blomberg 1b 3 0 1 1
  Alou 1b 1 0 0 0
Callison rf 3 0 0 0
Munson c 4 0 2 0
Sanchez 3b 3 0 1 0
  Lanier pr,3b 1 1 0 0
Michael ss 3 1 1 0
Peterson p 2 0 1 1
  Lyle p 1 0 1 0
Totals 32 3 10 3
Boston 000 000 200261
New York 100 011 00x3100
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Tiant  L (11-5) 5.1 8 3 3 4 0
  Peters   1.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Newhauser   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
10
3
3
4
2
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Peterson  W (15-14) 6.0 5 2 2 1 3
  Lyle  SV (33) 3.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
2
4

  E–Aparicio (14).  DP–New York 1.  2B–New York Murcer (29,off Tiant); Blomberg (21,off Tiant); White (27,off Tiant).  HR–Boston Oglivie (8,7th inning off Peterson 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Peterson (15,off Tiant).  IBB–Murcer (6,by Tiant).  CS–White (8,2nd base by Tiant/Fisk).  IBB–Tiant (5,Murcer).  U-HP–Jim Odom, 1B–Don Denkinger, 2B–Ron Luciano, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:25.  A–20,187.
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