California Angels vs Boston Red Sox
July 21, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 21, 1987 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the California Angels 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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California Angels 0, Boston Red Sox 3

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Downing dh 4 0 0 0
Jones cf,lf 4 0 1 0
White rf 4 0 1 0
Howell lf,2b 4 0 0 0
DeCinces 3b 4 0 1 0
Hendrick 1b 3 0 1 0
Boone c 3 0 0 0
McLemore 2b,ss 3 0 1 0
Polidor ss 2 0 0 0
  Ryal ph 1 0 0 0
  Pettis cf 0 0 0 0
McCaskill p 0 0 0 0
  Lazorko p 0 0 0 0
  Finley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 5 0
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 4 0 1 0
Romero 2b 4 0 1 0
Boggs 3b 4 1 2 0
Rice lf 4 2 2 2
Evans rf 2 0 0 0
Greenwell dh 4 0 2 0
Buckner 1b 2 0 1 1
Owen ss 3 0 0 0
Sullivan c 2 0 0 0
Clemens p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 9 3
California 000 000 000051
Boston 000 201 00x390
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
McCaskill  L (2-2) 3.0 5 2 2 1 0
  Lazorko   3.1 4 1 1 2 3
  Finley   1.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
3
3
3
3
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Clemens  W (9-7) 9.0 5 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
0
0

  E–McLemore (15).  DP–California 3.  2B–California Jones (4,off Clemens), Boston Boggs (26,off McCaskill); Rice (14,off Lazorko).  HR–Boston Rice (9,4th inning off McCaskill 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Sullivan (6,off McCaskill).  CS–Burks (3,2nd base by McCaskill/Boone).  U-HP–Dan Morrison, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Al Clark.  T–2:28.  A–30,301.
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