Seattle Mariners vs Boston Red Sox
May 18, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1981 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Seattle Mariners 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Seattle Mariners 5, Boston Red Sox 8

Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Cruz 2b 4 0 0 0
Edler 3b 3 0 1 1
Meyer lf 3 0 0 1
Zisk dh 5 1 1 0
Burroughs rf 4 1 1 0
Bochte 1b 4 2 3 1
Henderson cf 3 0 1 0
Narron c 5 1 1 0
Anderson ss 2 0 1 1
  Paciorek ph 1 0 1 1
  Auerbach ss 1 0 0 0
Clark p 0 0 0 0
  Drago p 0 0 0 0
  Andersen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 10 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Evans rf 2 2 2 0
Stapleton ss 4 2 2 2
Lansford 3b 4 2 2 2
Rice lf 4 0 1 2
Perez 1b 4 0 1 0
Rudi dh 5 0 0 0
Schmidt c 2 1 0 0
Nichols cf 2 0 0 0
  Yastrzemski ph 0 0 0 0
  Miller pr,cf 0 1 0 0
Remy 2b 4 0 1 0
Torrez p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Clear p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 8 9 6
Seattle 001 101 2005100
Boston 301 001 03x891
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Clark   5.2 7 5 5 6 3
  Drago  L (1-2) 1.2 1 3 3 3 3
  Andersen   0.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
8
8
9
7
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Torrez   3.2 5 2 2 2 3
  Stanley   2.1 4 3 3 2 1
  Clear  W (4-0) 2.0 1 0 0 3 1
  Campbell  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
5
5
7
5

  E–Lansford (4).  DP–Seattle 1.  2B–Seattle Bochte (5,off Torrez), Boston Lansford (10,off Clark); Evans (6,off Clark); Stapleton (4,off Drago).  SH–Meyer (1,off Clear); Nichols (2,off Clark).  SF–Meyer (1,off Torrez); Rice (3,off Clark).  HBP–Edler (1,by Stanley).  IBB–Evans (1,by Clark).  SB–Miller (2,2nd base off Drago/Narron).  WP–Clark (2).  BK–Clark (1).  HBP–Stanley (3,Edler).  IBB–Clark (2,Evans).  U-HP–Dallas Parks, 1B–Bill Kunkel, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–John Shulock.  T–3:06.  A–12,044.
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