Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Royals
April 18, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 18, 1985 at Royals Stadium. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 4, Kansas City Royals 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 4 0 1 0
Evans rf 5 0 0 0
Rice lf 6 2 1 1
Easler dh 7 0 1 0
Armas cf 6 1 2 1
Buckner 1b 6 0 1 1
Barrett 2b 4 0 0 0
Gutierrez ss 3 0 0 0
  Miller ph 1 0 0 0
  Hoffman ss 2 0 1 0
Sullivan c 3 0 1 0
  Lyons pr 0 1 0 0
  Gedman c 3 0 1 0
Boyd p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Ojeda p 0 0 0 0
Totals 50 4 9 3
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 6 1 2 0
Sheridan rf 7 0 3 1
Brett 3b 6 1 1 0
Orta dh 5 1 3 0
  McRae ph,dh 0 0 0 0
Iorg lf 3 0 0 0
  Jones L. lf 1 0 0 0
  Wathan c 2 0 0 0
Balboni 1b 6 0 1 1
White 2b 6 0 1 1
Sundberg c 2 0 0 0
  Motley ph,lf 3 0 0 0
Biancalana ss 6 0 2 0
Black p 0 0 0 0
  Quisenberry p 0 0 0 0
  Beckwith p 0 0 0 0
  Jones M. p 0 0 0 0
Totals 53 3 13 3
Boston 000 100 020 000 01490
Kansas City 100 100 010 000 003131
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Boyd   7.0 7 3 3 2 4
  Stanley   4.0 4 0 0 0 1
  Ojeda  W (1-0) 3.0 2 0 0 1 3
Totals
14.0
13
3
3
3
8
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Black   7.1 3 2 1 4 0
  Quisenberry   1.2 4 1 0 1 1
  Beckwith   3.0 1 0 0 1 2
  Jones  L (0-1) 2.0 1 1 1 1 0
Totals
14.0
9
4
2
7
3

  E–White (1).  DP–Boston 2, Kansas City 1.  2B–Boston Armas (2,off Black); Buckner (3,off Black), Kansas City Sheridan 2 (2,off Boyd,off Ojeda); Orta (4,off Boyd).  HR–Boston Rice (3,14th inning off M Jones 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Boggs (1,off Black).  IBB–Boggs (1,by Beckwith); McRae (1,by Ojeda).  HBP–Wilson (1,by Boyd).  SB–Hoffman (1,2nd base off Beckwith/Wathan); Sheridan (2,2nd base off Boyd/Sullivan).  CS–Biancalana (1,2nd base by Ojeda/Gedman).  HBP–Boyd (1,Wilson).  IBB–Ojeda (2,McRae); Beckwith (1,Boggs).  T–4:11.  A–22,587.
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