Boston Red Sox vs Chicago White Sox
August 17, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 17, 1987 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox 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, Chicago White Sox 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 4 0 2 0
Barrett 2b 4 0 2 0
Boggs 3b 4 0 0 0
Baylor dh 2 0 0 0
Evans 1b 4 1 1 0
Greenwell lf 3 0 1 0
Benzinger rf 3 0 1 1
  Horn ph 1 0 0 0
Owen ss 4 0 0 0
Marzano c 3 0 0 0
Sellers p 0 0 0 0
  Sambito p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 7 1
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Guillen ss 4 1 1 0
Redus lf 3 0 0 0
Baines rf 3 1 2 0
  Williams rf 0 0 0 0
Hassey dh 4 0 2 1
Walker 1b 2 0 0 1
Fisk c 3 0 1 0
Hill 3b 3 0 1 0
Lyons cf 2 0 0 0
Manrique 2b 3 0 0 0
LaPoint p 0 0 0 0
  Thigpen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 2 7 2
Boston 000 000 100170
Chicago 000 101 00x270
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sellers  L (4-6) 7.2 7 2 2 1 4
  Sambito   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
7
2
2
1
5
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
LaPoint  W (2-0) 7.0 6 1 1 1 4
  Thigpen  SV (5) 2.0 1 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
2
7

  E–None.  DP–Boston 1, Chicago 2.  PB–Marzano (5).  2B–Boston Barrett (15,off LaPoint); Greenwell (23,off LaPoint), Chicago Hassey (8,off Sellers); Guillen (15,off Sellers).  HBP–Baylor (21,by LaPoint).  SH–Redus (3,off Sellers); Lyons (3,off Sellers).  SF–Walker (5,off Sellers).  SB–Baylor (5,2nd base off LaPoint/Fisk).  CS–Baylor (2,3rd base by LaPoint/Fisk).  HBP–LaPoint (1,Baylor).  U-HP–Steve Palermo, 1B–Dan Morrison, 2B–Tim Tschida, 3B–Dave Phillips.  T–2:28.  A–16,362.
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