Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Royals
May 4, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 4, 1980 at Royals Stadium. The Kansas City Royals 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 3, Kansas City Royals 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 4 0 3 1
Burleson ss 4 0 0 0
Lynn cf 4 0 0 0
Rice lf 4 0 0 0
Yastrzemski dh 4 0 0 0
Perez 1b 4 0 1 0
Hobson 3b 4 2 2 1
Dwyer rf 3 0 1 0
Allenson c 2 1 1 0
  Fisk ph 1 0 0 0
Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 8 2
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 3 1 0 0
White 2b 3 0 1 1
McRae lf 4 1 1 0
  Detherage pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Porter dh 4 1 2 3
Aikens 1b 2 0 0 0
  LaCock 1b 1 0 0 0
Wathan c 4 0 1 1
Quirk 3b 4 0 0 0
Hurdle rf 2 1 1 0
Washington ss 3 1 2 0
Leonard p 0 0 0 0
  Quisenberry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 8 5
Boston 000 010 200381
Kansas City 103 000 10x580
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Stanley  L (2-2) 6.2 8 5 5 0 3
  Burgmeier   1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
0
4
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Leonard  W (1-3) 6.2 7 3 3 2 5
  Quisenberry  SV (3) 2.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
2
5

  E–Hobson (4).  DP–Boston 1, Kansas City 1.  2B–Boston Remy (3,off Leonard); Allenson (2,off Leonard).  3B–Kansas City Porter (1,off Stanley).  HR–Boston Hobson (3,7th inning off Leonard 0 on, 1 out).  SH–White (2,off Stanley).  HBP–Wilson (2,by Stanley); Aikens (1,by Stanley); Hurdle (1,by Stanley).  SB–Remy (3,2nd base off Leonard/Wathan); Washington (4,2nd base off Stanley/Allenson).  HBP–Stanley 3 (5,Wilson,Aikens,Hurdle).  U-HP–Jerry Neudecker, 1B–Bill Deegan, 2B–Rich Garcia, 3B–Mike Reilly.  T–2:13.  A–24,209.
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