Boston Red Sox vs Chicago White Sox
April 8, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 8, 1978 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox 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 5, Chicago White Sox 6

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 4 1 1 0
Burleson ss 4 1 1 1
Rice dh 5 1 1 1
Yastrzemski lf 3 1 0 0
Fisk c 4 1 2 0
Lynn cf 3 0 2 2
Scott 1b 3 0 1 1
Evans rf 4 0 0 0
Hobson 3b 4 0 1 0
Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 9 5
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Garr lf 4 1 2 2
Orta 2b 4 1 1 0
Johnson 1b 4 1 1 1
Bonds rf 3 0 1 0
Blomberg dh 4 0 0 0
Lemon cf 4 1 1 2
Soderholm 3b 4 1 2 1
Kessinger ss 3 1 1 0
Nahorodny c 4 0 1 0
Barrios p 0 0 0 0
  Schueler p 0 0 0 0
  Torrealba p 0 0 0 0
  LaGrow p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 10 6
Boston 003 110 000591
Chicago 000 020 04x6100
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eckersley   7.0 4 2 2 1 1
  Campbell  L (0-1) 0.2 4 4 4 0 1
  Stanley   0.1 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
10
6
6
1
3
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Barrios   2.2 5 3 3 4 0
  Schueler   2.1 3 2 2 0 2
  Torrealba  W (1-0) 3.2 1 0 0 1 2
  LaGrow  SV (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
5
5
5
4

  E–Yastrzemski (1).  DP–Chicago 1.  2B–Boston Fisk (1,off Schueler), Chicago Bonds (1,off Eckersley); Lemon (2,off Campbell).  HR–Boston Burleson (1,4th inning off Schueler 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Bonds (1,off Campbell).  SB–Remy 2 (2,2nd base off Barrios/Nahorodny 2).  CS–Fisk (1,2nd base by Barrios/Nahorodny).  U-HP–Bill Deegan, 1B–Terry Cooney, 2B–Al Clark, 3B–Bill Kunkel.  T–2:36.  A–11,832.
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