Boston Red Sox vs Chicago White Sox
June 15, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 15, 1979 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 8

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 4 0 1 1
Burleson ss 4 0 0 0
Watson 1b 4 1 2 0
Rice lf 5 1 2 1
Fisk dh 5 1 2 2
Yastrzemski cf 4 1 1 0
Evans rf 5 1 2 0
Wolfe 3b 4 0 1 0
Allenson c 2 0 0 0
  Hobson ph 1 0 0 1
  O'Berry c 0 0 0 0
Torrez p 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 11 5
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Garr lf 2 2 1 1
  Moore ph,lf 2 0 1 0
Washington rf 4 1 1 1
Lemon cf 3 0 0 0
Orta dh 3 2 1 0
Bannister 2b 3 2 2 1
Squires 1b 3 0 2 4
Pryor 3b 4 0 0 0
May c 4 0 0 0
Kessinger ss 4 1 1 0
Wortham p 0 0 0 0
  Trout p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 8 9 7
Boston 101 000 0305113
Chicago 250 000 10x890
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Torrez  L (6-4) 1.2 6 7 7 3 0
  Burgmeier   5.1 3 1 1 1 4
  Stanley   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
9
8
8
4
6
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wortham  W (7-5) 7.0 8 4 4 4 5
  Trout   2.0 3 1 1 1 0
Totals
9.0
11
5
5
5
5

  E–Burleson (8), Wolfe (2), Torrez (4).  2B–Boston Evans (9,off Trout); Watson (1,off Trout), Chicago Kessinger (6,off Torrez); Washington (18,off Torrez); Squires (4,off Burgmeier).  3B–Chicago Moore (1,off Burgmeier); Bannister (5,off Burgmeier).  HR–Boston Rice (13,3rd inning off Wortham 0 on, 0 out); Fisk (2,8th inning off Wortham 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Squires (3,off Burgmeier).  SB–Squires (4,2nd base off Torrez/Allenson).  WP–Wortham (6).  U-HP–Fred Spenn, 1B–Larry Barnett, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Ted Hendry.  T–2:28.  A–46,556.
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