Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Royals
August 4, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 4, 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."

"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

Boston Red Sox 6, Kansas City Royals 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Evans rf 4 2 1 0
Boggs 3b 6 1 4 0
Buckner 1b 6 2 3 3
Rice lf 6 0 2 1
Armas dh 6 0 2 1
  Stapleton pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Gedman c 6 0 2 0
Barrett 2b 5 0 0 0
Lyons cf 4 0 1 0
Gutierrez ss 3 0 0 0
  Easler ph 1 1 1 1
  Jurak ss 1 0 0 0
Boyd p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Clear p 0 0 0 0
Totals 48 6 16 6
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 6 1 2 1
Smith lf 4 1 2 0
  Jones lf 2 0 1 0
Brett 3b 6 2 2 1
McRae dh 6 0 1 0
White 2b 6 0 4 3
Balboni 1b 6 0 0 0
Sheridan rf 4 1 2 0
  Motley ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Sundberg c 4 0 2 0
Concepcion ss 2 0 0 0
  Iorg ph 1 0 0 0
  Scranton ss 0 0 0 0
  Orta ph 1 0 0 0
  Pryor ss 1 0 0 0
Leibrandt p 0 0 0 0
  Quisenberry p 0 0 0 0
  LaCoss p 0 0 0 0
  Beckwith p 0 0 0 0
Totals 50 5 16 5
Boston 002 000 001 0036161
Kansas City 000 002 100 0025160
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Boyd   8.0 10 3 3 0 2
  Stanley  W (6-5) 3.2 6 2 2 0 1
  Clear  SV (3) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
12.0
16
5
5
0
4
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Leibrandt   7.0 9 2 2 2 3
  Quisenberry   4.0 2 1 1 1 1
  LaCoss  L (1-1) 0.0 5 3 3 0 0
  Beckwith   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
12.0
16
6
6
3
6

  E–Gedman (10).  DP–Kansas City 2.  2B–Boston Boggs (30,off Leibrandt); Rice 2 (13,off Leibrandt,off LaCoss); Evans (14,off LaCoss); Buckner (31,off LaCoss), Kansas City White 2 (14,off Boyd 2); Wilson (19,off Boyd); Brett (22,off Stanley).  HR–Boston Easler (12,9th inning off Quisenberry 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Barrett (6,off Leibrandt); Sundberg (3,off Boyd).  SB–Buckner (11,2nd base off Leibrandt/Sundberg); Lyons (6,2nd base off Leibrandt/Sundberg); Smith (25,2nd base off Boyd/Gedman); Sheridan (11,2nd base off Boyd/Gedman).  CS–Sundberg (1,2nd base by Boyd/Gedman).  WP–Clear (6).  BK–Boyd (1).  T–3:48.  A–31,020.
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