Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
September 17, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 17, 1981 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 1, Boston Red Sox 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Cowens cf 4 0 1 0
Trammell ss 5 0 1 0
Gibson rf 4 0 1 0
Kemp lf 4 0 1 0
Jackson 1b 3 1 2 0
Parrish c 2 0 0 0
  Fahey c 0 0 0 0
Wockenfuss dh 2 0 1 0
  Summers ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Brookens 3b 2 0 0 1
  Hebner ph 1 0 0 0
  Kelleher 3b 0 0 0 0
Whitaker 2b 4 0 0 0
Wilcox p 0 0 0 0
  Kinney p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 7 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 1 2 0 0
Evans rf 3 1 1 0
Rice lf 5 1 4 4
Yastrzemski dh 5 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 3 0 1 1
Stapleton ss 4 0 1 0
Perez 1b 4 1 2 0
Gedman c 4 0 1 1
Miller cf 3 1 1 0
Ojeda p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 11 6
Detroit 000 001 000170
Boston 110 100 03x6110
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Wilcox  L (10-8) 5.2 10 3 3 3 1
  Kinney   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Lopez   2.0 1 3 3 2 3
Totals
8.0
11
6
6
5
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ojeda  W (6-2) 7.0 6 1 1 5 1
  Campbell  SV (6) 2.0 1 0 0 0 4
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
5
5

  E–None.  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Boston Perez (7,off Wilcox); Gedman (12,off Wilcox); Rice (17,off Wilcox).  HR–Boston Rice (15,8th inning off Lopez 2 on, 2 out).  SF–Brookens (6,off Ojeda); Lansford (2,off Wilcox).  SH–Miller (3,off Wilcox); Remy (11,off Wilcox).  SB–Remy (9,2nd base off Lopez/Fahey).  U-HP–Marty Springstead, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Dale Ford, 3B–Derryl Cousins.  T–3:06.  A–16,832.
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