Boston Red Sox vs Seattle Mariners
July 12, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 12, 1987 at Kingdome. The Seattle Mariners 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, Seattle Mariners 6

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 5 0 2 0
Barrett 2b 2 0 1 0
Boggs 3b 4 0 0 0
Rice lf 5 0 0 0
Baylor dh 4 0 2 0
Evans 1b,rf 3 1 2 0
Benzinger rf 3 0 1 1
  Buckner ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Owen ss 3 0 0 0
Sheaffer c 3 0 0 0
  Greenwell ph 1 0 0 0
Nipper p 0 0 0 0
  Crawford p 0 0 0 0
  Sambito p 0 0 0 0
  Schiraldi p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 8 1
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Kingery rf 4 1 2 1
Bradley P. lf 3 2 1 1
Bradley S. 3b 4 0 1 0
Davis 1b 2 0 0 0
Matthews dh 4 1 2 3
Valle c 3 1 1 1
Brantley cf 3 0 1 0
Quinones ss 4 0 0 0
Reynolds 2b 3 1 1 0
Guetterman p 0 0 0 0
  Reed p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 6 9 6
Boston 000 100 000181
Seattle 013 000 11x691
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nipper  L (7-9) 2.1 5 4 4 2 0
  Crawford   3.2 2 0 0 2 0
  Sambito   1.0 1 1 1 0 1
  Schiraldi   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
4
1
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Guetterman  W (8-1) 6.0 6 1 1 4 1
  Reed  SV (3) 3.0 2 0 0 2 4
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
6
5

  E–Sheaffer (3), Valle (2).  DP–Boston 3.  2B–Boston Evans (20,off Guetterman); Benzinger (3,off Guetterman), Seattle Kingery (7,off Nipper); Brantley (8,off Crawford).  HR–Seattle Matthews (1,2nd inning off Nipper 0 on, 1 out); P Bradley (10,7th inning off Sambito 0 on, 1 out); Valle (10,8th inning off Schiraldi 0 on, 1 out).  HBP–Davis (1,by Nipper).  SB–Barrett (8,2nd base off Guetterman/Valle); Reynolds (32,2nd base off Nipper/Sheaffer).  CS–Burks (2,2nd base by Guetterman/Valle).  HBP–Nipper (5,Davis).  U-HP–John Hirschbeck, 1B–Rich Garcia, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Jim Joyce.  T–2:46.  A–13,391.
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