Kansas City Royals vs Boston Red Sox
May 17, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1981 at Fenway Park. 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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Kansas City Royals 5, Boston Red Sox 4

Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson lf 5 1 3 0
Washington ss 4 0 1 1
Aikens 1b 5 1 2 2
McRae dh 5 1 2 1
Otis cf 4 0 0 0
Wathan rf,c 4 1 1 0
White 2b 3 0 0 0
Chalk 3b 4 0 1 1
Grote c 3 0 0 0
  May ph 1 0 1 0
  Geronimo pr,rf 0 1 0 0
Leonard p 0 0 0 0
  Quisenberry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 11 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 5 0 3 0
Evans rf 4 1 0 0
Yastrzemski 1b 5 0 2 0
Rice lf 5 2 3 1
Perez dh 5 0 1 0
Lansford 3b 5 1 5 2
Stapleton ss 5 0 1 0
Gedman c 4 0 1 0
Miller cf 4 0 1 1
Tudor p 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 4 17 4
Kansas City 010 000 0225110
Boston 110 010 0014171
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Leonard  W (4-4) 8.0 15 3 3 1 4
  Quisenberry  SV (3) 1.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
17
4
4
1
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Tudor   7.2 7 3 3 1 6
  Burgmeier  L (2-2) 1.0 4 2 2 1 0
  Stanley   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
5
5
2
6

  E–Stapleton (4).  DP–Kansas City 2, Boston 1.  2B–Kansas City Chalk (1,off Tudor); McRae (5,off Tudor), Boston Miller (9,off Leonard); Remy (1,off Leonard); Rice (4,off Quisenberry).  HR–Kansas City Aikens (6,8th inning off Tudor 0 on, 2 out); McRae (2,8th inning off Tudor 0 on, 2 out).  SB–Wathan (4,2nd base off Tudor/Gedman); Lansford (7,2nd base off Leonard/Grote).  WP–Tudor (1).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Durwood Merrill, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Jerry Neudecker.  T–2:45.  A–26,723.
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