Baltimore Orioles vs Boston Red Sox
June 23, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 23, 1973 at Fenway Park. The Baltimore Orioles 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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Baltimore Orioles 2, Boston Red Sox 1

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Rettenmund lf 5 0 1 0
Coggins rf 5 0 1 0
Blair cf 5 1 4 0
Williams 1b 5 0 2 1
Baylor dh 4 1 0 0
Grich 2b 4 0 0 0
Hendricks c 3 0 1 0
Belanger ss 4 0 0 0
Brown 3b 3 0 1 1
  Robinson 3b 1 0 1 0
Jefferson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 2 11 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Miller rf 5 0 1 0
Guerrero ss,2b 3 0 0 0
Fisk dh 4 0 1 0
Yastrzemski lf 4 0 0 0
Smith cf 4 0 1 0
Petrocelli 3b 3 1 1 1
Cater 1b 4 0 1 0
Montgomery c 4 0 1 0
Kennedy 2b 2 0 0 0
  Oglivie ph 1 0 0 0
  Aparicio ss 1 0 1 0
Pattin p 0 0 0 0
  Newhauser p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 7 1
Baltimore 000 000 100 12111
Boston 000 000 001 0171
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Jefferson  W (1-0) 10.0 7 1 1 3 1
Totals
10.0
7
1
1
3
1
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Pattin  L (7-9) 9.0 11 2 2 2 5
  Newhauser   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
11
2
2
2
6

  E–Belanger (8), Pattin (2).  DP–Baltimore 3, Boston 1.  2B–Baltimore Hendricks (4,off Pattin); Blair (9,off Pattin), Boston Fisk (13,off Jefferson).  3B–Baltimore Blair (2,off Pattin), Boston Miller (4,off Jefferson).  HR–Boston Petrocelli (9,9th inning off Jefferson 0 on, 2 out).  HBP–Baylor (6,by Pattin).  IBB–Hendricks (2,by Pattin).  CS–Grich (3,2nd base by Pattin/Montgomery).  HBP–Pattin (4,Baylor).  IBB–Pattin (4,Hendricks).  U-HP–Ron Luciano, 1B–Dave Phillips, 2B–Jerry Neudecker, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–2:45.  A–30,676.
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