Boston Red Sox vs California Angels
May 14, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 14, 1986 at Anaheim Stadium. The Boston Red Sox defeated the California Angels and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 8, California Angels 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Evans rf 3 1 0 0
  Lyons cf 0 0 0 0
Boggs 3b 5 2 3 2
Buckner dh 5 1 1 1
Rice lf 5 1 2 1
Baylor 1b 3 1 2 0
  Stapleton 1b 1 0 1 1
Armas cf,rf 5 0 1 0
Gedman c 5 1 2 3
Barrett 2b 5 0 0 0
Romero ss 4 1 1 0
Clemens p 0 0 0 0
  Sambito p 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 8 13 8
California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Wilfong 2b 4 0 1 0
  Grich ph 1 0 1 0
Joyner 1b 4 0 0 0
Downing lf 3 1 0 0
  Boone c 1 0 0 0
Jackson dh 3 2 2 2
DeCinces 3b 3 1 0 0
Narron c 2 1 1 1
  Hendrick rf 1 0 0 0
Jones rf,lf 3 0 1 1
Schofield ss 4 0 1 0
Pettis cf 3 0 0 0
  Burleson ph 1 0 0 0
McCaskill p 0 0 0 0
  Forsch p 0 0 0 0
  Bryden p 0 0 0 0
  Forster p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 7 4
Boston 000 000 2338130
California 300 100 010572
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Clemens  W (6-0) 8.0 6 5 5 5 9
  Sambito  SV (4) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
5
10
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
McCaskill   7.0 7 2 0 2 9
  Forsch   0.1 2 3 2 0 0
  Bryden  L (2-1) 1.0 4 3 3 1 0
  Forster   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
13
8
5
3
10

  E–Wilfong (3), DeCinces (2).  DP–Boston 1, California 1.  2B–Boston Rice (11,off Bryden), California Jones (9,off Clemens).  HR–Boston Boggs (4,7th inning off McCaskill 1 on, 2 out); Gedman (3,8th inning off Forsch 2 on, 1 out), California Jackson (7,1st inning off Clemens 1 on, 2 out).  HBP–Downing (5,by Clemens).  WP–Clemens 3 (4).  HBP–Clemens (1,Downing).  U-HP–Durwood Merrill, 1B–Ted Hendry, 2B–Derryl Cousins, 3B–Mark Johnson.  T–3:15.  A–32,966.
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