Boston Red Sox vs California Angels
July 7, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 7, 1987 at Anaheim Stadium. The California Angels defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 4, California Angels 9

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 5 0 1 0
Barrett 2b 4 1 2 0
Boggs 3b 4 2 2 2
Rice lf 4 1 3 0
Greenwell dh 4 0 2 2
Evans rf 3 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 4 0 1 0
Owen ss 3 0 0 0
  Baylor ph 1 0 0 0
  Romero ss 0 0 0 0
Sullivan c 3 0 0 0
  Benzinger ph 1 0 0 0
Nipper p 0 0 0 0
  Bolton p 0 0 0 0
  Sambito p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 11 4
California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Downing dh 4 1 0 0
White rf 4 1 1 1
Joyner 1b 2 2 0 0
Howell lf 3 1 1 3
DeCinces 3b 3 2 2 1
Boone c 3 0 1 3
Schofield ss 4 0 1 0
Pettis cf 4 1 1 0
McLemore 2b 3 1 0 0
Witt p 0 0 0 0
  Buice p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 9 7 8
Boston 000 003 0104111
California 010 260 00x970
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nipper  L (7-8) 4.1 4 7 5 3 3
  Bolton   2.2 2 2 2 3 2
  Sambito   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
9
7
6
5
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Witt  W (10-5) 7.1 11 4 4 1 4
  Buice  SV (8) 1.2 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
1
6

  E–Sullivan (1).  DP–California 1.  PB–Sullivan 2 (7).  2B–Boston Rice (13,off Witt), California Boone (8,off Nipper).  3B–California Howell (3,off Bolton).  HR–Boston Boggs (14,6th inning off Witt 1 on, 1 out), California DeCinces (11,2nd inning off Nipper 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Barrett (12,off Witt).  SF–Boone (2,off Bolton).  IBB–Joyner (8,by Bolton).  SB–Pettis (16,2nd base off Nipper/Sullivan); McLemore (22,2nd base off Nipper/Sullivan).  WP–Nipper (3).  IBB–Bolton (2,Joyner).  U-HP–Joe Brinkman, 1B–Al Clark, 2B–Mike Reilly, 3B–Tim Welke.  T–2:50.  A–31,526.
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