Baltimore Orioles vs Boston Red Sox
September 20, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 20, 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 4

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Grich ss,2b 3 0 0 0
Blair cf 4 0 2 0
Davis lf 4 0 0 0
Powell 1b 4 0 1 0
Crowley rf 3 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 3 0 0 0
  Cabell pr 0 0 0 0
Johnson 2b 3 0 1 0
  Bumbry pr 0 0 0 0
  Belanger ss 0 0 0 0
  Buford ph 1 0 0 0
Etchebarren c 1 0 0 0
  Oates ph,c 1 0 0 0
Cuellar p 1 0 0 0
  Alexander p 0 0 0 0
  Shopay ph 1 0 0 0
  Watt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 4 0
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Harper cf 3 1 1 1
  Miller cf 0 0 0 0
Aparicio ss 4 0 1 1
Yastrzemski 1b 3 0 0 0
Smith rf 2 0 0 0
Petrocelli 3b 3 0 0 0
Fisk c 3 0 0 0
Evans lf 4 2 2 1
Griffin 2b 4 1 1 0
Tiant p 3 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 5 3
Baltimore 000 000 000041
Boston 000 010 21x450
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Cuellar  L (17-11) 6.2 4 3 3 6 9
  Alexander   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Watt   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
5
4
4
6
9
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Tiant  W (13-5) 9.0 4 0 0 4 7
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
4
7

  E–Grich (17).  PB–Oates 2 (4).  2B–Baltimore Blair (17,off Tiant).  3B–Boston Evans (1,off Cuellar).  HR–Boston Evans (1,8th inning off Watt 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Cuellar (7,off Tiant); Tiant (3,off Cuellar).  CS–Blair (8,2nd base by Tiant/Fisk).  SB–Harper (22,2nd base off Cuellar/Etchebarren).  U-HP–Frank Umont, 1B–Jim Odom, 2B–Don Denkinger, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:37.  A–28,777.
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