Cleveland Indians vs Boston Red Sox
September 26, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 26, 1981 at Fenway Park. The Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 7, Boston Red Sox 5

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Dilone lf 4 0 0 0
  Bannister ph,lf 1 0 1 0
Orta rf 5 3 3 0
Hargrove 1b 3 1 2 1
Hayes dh 4 2 2 0
Harrah 3b 4 1 2 2
Hassey c 3 0 1 2
  Diaz ph,c 1 0 0 0
Manning cf 4 0 1 2
Kuiper 2b 4 0 2 0
Dybzinski ss 4 0 1 0
Waits p 0 0 0 0
  Spillner p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 7 15 7
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 3 0 0 0
  Rudi ph 0 0 0 1
  Hoffman ss 0 0 0 0
  Gedman ph 1 0 0 0
Evans rf 3 1 1 1
Rice lf 4 1 2 1
Yastrzemski dh 4 0 1 2
Lansford 3b 4 0 1 0
Stapleton ss,2b 4 0 0 0
Perez 1b 4 0 0 0
Allenson c 3 2 1 0
Miller cf 3 1 1 0
Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 7 5
Cleveland 401 010 1007150
Boston 003 000 200573
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Waits  W (8-9) 6.2 6 5 5 2 5
  Spillner  SV (7) 2.1 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
3
6
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eckersley  L (9-7) 6.0 12 7 6 1 5
  Burgmeier   3.0 3 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
15
7
6
3
8

  E–Evans (2), Rice (3), Stapleton (16).  DP–Boston 2.  2B–Boston Yastrzemski (14,off Waits); Miller (17,off Waits); Evans (16,off Spillner).  SH–Hayes (4,off Burgmeier).  IBB–Harrah (8,by Burgmeier).  SF–Rudi (2,off Waits).  SB–Hayes (6,2nd base off Eckersley/Allenson).  CS–Harrah (1,2nd base by Eckersley/Allenson); Kuiper (1,3rd base by Burgmeier/Allenson).  WP–Waits (5).  BK–Spillner (1).  IBB–Burgmeier (4,Harrah).  U-HP–Jerry Neudecker, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Dave Phillips.  T–2:37.  A–24,034.
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