Chicago White Sox vs Kansas City Royals
April 8, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 8, 1987 at Royals Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Chicago White 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 3, Kansas City Royals 9

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Redus cf 4 0 1 0
Hill 2b 5 0 1 0
Royster lf 4 0 0 0
  Hassey ph 1 0 0 0
Fisk dh 4 1 0 0
Walker 1b 4 1 1 1
Calderon rf 4 0 0 0
Hulett 3b 4 0 1 1
Guillen ss 2 1 1 0
  Manrique ss 1 0 0 0
Karkovice c 3 0 1 1
  Hairston ph 1 0 0 0
Bannister p 0 0 0 0
  Winn p 0 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Searage p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 6 3
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 4 1 1 0
  Bosley ph,cf 1 0 0 0
Seitzer 1b,3b 5 1 3 1
Tartabull rf 4 1 2 0
Brett 3b 3 0 2 1
  Beniquez 1b 0 0 0 0
White 2b 4 0 0 0
Jackson lf 4 1 2 1
Balboni dh 3 3 2 1
Hearn c 3 1 2 2
Biancalana ss 4 1 1 3
Leibrandt p 0 0 0 0
  Anderson p 0 0 0 0
  Quisenberry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 9 15 9
Chicago 000 000 120360
Kansas City 020 421 00x9154
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Bannister  L (0-1) 3.2 9 6 6 1 1
  Winn   2.1 6 3 3 4 1
  Davis   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Searage   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
15
9
9
6
3
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Leibrandt  W (1-0) 7.0 3 1 1 2 6
  Anderson   1.0 2 2 0 0 1
  Quisenberry   1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
6
3
1
2
9

  E–Seitzer 2 (2), Brett (1), Biancalana (2).  DP–Chicago 2.  2B–Chicago Redus (1,off Leibrandt); Guillen (1,off Leibrandt); Walker (1,off Anderson), Kansas City Hearn 2 (2,off Bannister 2); Wilson (1,off Winn); B Jackson (1,off Winn).  3B–Kansas City Seitzer (2,off Bannister).  HR–Kansas City Biancalana (1,4th inning off Bannister 2 on, 1 out); Balboni (1,5th inning off Winn 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Fisk (1,by Leibrandt).  CS–Tartabull (1,2nd base by Bannister/Karkovice).  HBP–Leibrandt (1,Fisk).  U-HP–Greg Kosc, 1B–Vic Voltaggio, 2B–Rocky Roe, 3B–Larry Barnett.  T–2:50.  A–19,446.
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