New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox
May 31, 1976 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 1976 at Fenway Park. 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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New York Yankees 8, Boston Red Sox 3

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 1 0 0
White lf 3 2 2 0
Munson c 4 1 1 2
Chambliss 1b 5 2 3 1
May dh 3 1 1 2
Nettles 3b 5 0 1 0
Gamble rf 4 0 3 1
Randolph 2b 4 1 1 0
Mason ss 2 0 0 0
  Velez ph 1 0 0 0
  Stanley ss 2 0 1 1
Hunter p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 8 13 7
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Miller lf 5 1 1 0
Doyle 2b 3 0 0 0
Lynn cf 4 1 2 2
Yastrzemski 1b 4 0 1 0
Rice dh 4 0 0 0
Evans rf 4 0 0 0
Petrocelli 3b 4 1 3 0
Burleson ss 3 0 0 0
Montgomery c 4 0 3 1
Jenkins p 0 0 0 0
  House p 0 0 0 0
  Willoughby p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 10 3
New York 203 001 1018130
Boston 110 000 0103100
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Hunter  W (6-5) 9.0 10 3 3 1 6
Totals
9.0
10
3
3
1
6
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Jenkins  L (4-6) 3.2 8 5 2 2 1
  House   2.2 2 2 2 2 2
  Willoughby   1.2 1 0 0 1 0
  Jones   1.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
13
8
5
5
3

  E–None.  DP–New York 2, Boston 1.  PB–Montgomery (1).  2B–New York White (10,off Jenkins); C May (4,off Jenkins); Gamble (4,off House); Stanley (2,off Jones), Boston Miller (3,off Hunter); Montgomery (1,off Hunter); Petrocelli (5,off Hunter).  3B–Boston Petrocelli (1,off Hunter).  HR–New York Munson (7,6th inning off House 0 on, 2 out), Boston Lynn (3,8th inning off Hunter 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Munson (4,off Jenkins); C May (1,off Jenkins).  HBP–Gamble (3,by House); Burleson (2,by Hunter).  IBB–Randolph (3,by House).  SB–Rivers 2 (16,2nd base off Jenkins/Montgomery 2); White (12,2nd base off Willoughby/Montgomery).  WP–Jenkins (1), Willoughby 2 (3).  HBP–Hunter (1,Burleson); House (2,Gamble).  IBB–House (3,Randolph).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Bill Haller, 3B–Ron Luciano.  T–2:37.  A–35,939.
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