Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians
May 18, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1985 at Cleveland Stadium. 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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Boston Red Sox 1, Cleveland Indians 4

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 3 0 0 0
Evans rf 3 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 3 0 1 1
Rice lf 4 0 0 0
Armas cf 4 0 0 0
Easler dh 4 0 0 0
Gedman c 3 0 0 0
  Jurak pr 0 0 0 0
Barrett 2b 2 1 1 0
  Miller ph 1 0 0 0
Gutierrez ss 3 0 2 0
  Lyons ph 1 0 0 0
Hurst p 0 0 0 0
  Clear p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 4 1
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Butler cf 4 1 1 0
Franco ss 4 1 2 0
Jacoby 3b 3 0 0 1
Thornton dh 3 1 1 0
Tabler 1b 3 1 2 1
Ayala lf 3 0 2 1
  Nixon lf 0 0 0 0
  Hargrove ph 0 0 0 0
  LeMaster pr 0 0 0 0
  Vukovich rf 0 0 0 0
Carter rf,lf 4 0 1 0
Benton c 3 0 0 1
Bernazard 2b 4 0 0 0
  Fischlin 2b 0 0 0 0
Heaton p 0 0 0 0
  Waddell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 9 4
Boston 001 000 000140
Cleveland 100 001 02x491
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Hurst  L (1-4) 7.1 8 4 4 2 5
  Clear   0.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Stanley   0.2 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
9
4
4
4
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Heaton  W (3-3) 6.2 3 1 1 5 2
  Waddell  SV (7) 2.1 1 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
7
3

  E–Ayala (1).  DP–Cleveland 1.  2B–Boston Barrett (2,off Heaton); Buckner (11,off Waddell), Cleveland Butler (7,off Hurst); Ayala (1,off Hurst); Carter (4,off Hurst).  SF–Jacoby (2,off Hurst).  CS–Franco (1,2nd base by Hurst/Gedman).  T–2:38.  A–5,843.
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