New York Yankees vs Kansas City Royals
May 17, 1982 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1982 at Royals Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Yankees 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

New York Yankees 0, Kansas City Royals 7

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Randolph 2b 3 0 2 0
Piniella rf 4 0 3 0
Winfield lf 4 0 0 0
Balboni 1b 4 0 0 0
Hobson dh 4 0 1 0
Smalley 3b 4 0 1 0
Foote c 4 0 0 0
Collins cf 4 0 0 0
Dent ss 3 0 0 0
Erickson p 0 0 0 0
  Rawley p 0 0 0 0
  Gossage p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 0 7 0
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson lf 5 2 3 0
Wathan c 5 2 2 2
Brett 3b 5 1 3 2
Aikens 1b 4 0 0 1
Otis cf 1 1 0 0
McRae dh 4 0 2 2
Martin rf 4 0 0 0
White 2b 4 0 2 0
Pryor ss 4 1 1 0
Gura p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 7 13 7
New York 000 000 000071
Kansas City 101 010 40x7130
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Erickson  L (4-4) 6.0 9 5 5 2 5
  Rawley   1.0 3 2 2 1 3
  Gossage   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
13
7
7
3
8
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Gura  W (4-1) 9.0 7 0 0 1 5
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
1
5

  E–Smalley (2).  DP–New York 1.  2B–New York Hobson (2,off Gura), Kansas City Pryor (4,off Erickson); Wilson (2,off Erickson); McRae (11,off Rawley).  3B–Kansas City Wilson (2,off Erickson).  SF–Aikens (1,off Erickson).  IBB–Otis (2,by Rawley).  SB–Otis (4,2nd base off Erickson/Foote).  WP–Rawley (1).  IBB–Rawley (3,Otis).  U-HP–Jim Evans, 1B–Jim McKean, 2B–Al Clark, 3B–Ted Hendry.  T–2:35.  A–38,955.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook