Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
September 7, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 7, 1981 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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 1, Detroit Tigers 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 3 0 0 0
Evans rf 4 0 0 0
Rice lf 3 0 0 0
Yastrzemski dh 4 1 1 1
Lansford 3b 3 0 0 0
Stapleton 1b 3 0 0 0
Gedman c 3 0 0 0
Miller cf 3 0 1 0
Hoffman ss 2 0 0 0
Ojeda p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 2 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Jones dh 2 0 0 0
Trammell ss 4 0 1 1
Gibson rf 3 0 0 0
Kemp lf 3 1 1 1
Parrish c 3 0 0 0
Jackson 1b 3 0 0 0
Cowens cf 3 1 1 0
Brookens 3b 3 0 0 0
Whitaker 2b 3 1 1 1
Morris p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 3 4 3
Boston 000 000 100120
Detroit 010 000 02x340
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ojeda  L (4-2) 7.2 3 3 3 2 1
  Stanley   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
4
3
3
2
1
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Morris  W (12-4) 9.0 2 1 1 2 6
Totals
9.0
2
1
1
2
6

  E–None.  DP–Boston 1.  3B–Detroit Whitaker (4,off Ojeda).  HR–Boston Yastrzemski (5,7th inning off Morris 0 on, 1 out), Detroit Kemp (8,2nd inning off Ojeda 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Hoffman (6,off Morris).  HBP–Gibson (2,by Ojeda).  SB–Jones (1,2nd base off Stanley/Gedman).  HBP–Ojeda (2,Gibson).  U-HP–Nick Bremigan, 1B–Durwood Merrill, 2B–Rick Reed, 3B–Larry Barnett.  T–2:13.  A–42,098.
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