Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
April 21, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 21, 1988 at Tiger Stadium. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 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 12, Detroit Tigers 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 6 3 4 4
Barrett 2b 4 0 1 1
Boggs 3b 6 1 1 0
Rice dh 4 0 1 2
Greenwell lf 6 0 3 0
Evans 1b 4 1 1 0
Cerone c 4 3 2 0
Owen ss 3 3 1 2
Anderson rf 5 1 2 0
Ellsworth p 0 0 0 0
  Smithson p 0 0 0 0
  Lamp p 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 12 16 9
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Pettis cf 4 1 0 0
Whitaker 2b 3 0 0 0
Evans 1b 3 0 2 1
Trammell ss 3 0 0 0
Nokes c 4 1 1 1
Morrison dh 4 0 0 0
Sheridan lf 4 1 3 1
Lemon rf 4 0 2 0
Brookens 3b 4 0 0 0
Robinson p 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
  Gibson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 8 3
Boston 214 000 20312161
Detroit 110 000 100381
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ellsworth  W (1-2) 7.0 6 3 3 1 0
  Smithson   0.1 0 0 0 3 0
  Lamp   1.2 2 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
4
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Robinson  L (1-2) 2.2 6 7 6 5 2
  Hernandez   3.1 1 0 0 2 0
  Gibson   3.0 9 5 4 0 2
Totals
9.0
16
12
10
7
4

  E–Boggs (4), Pettis (1).  DP–Boston 3.  PB–Nokes (2).  2B–Boston Greenwell 2 (5,off Robinson,off Hernandez), Detroit Evans (1,off Ellsworth).  3B–Boston Burks (1,off Robinson).  HR–Boston Owen (2,9th inning off Gibson 1 on, 0 out), Detroit Sheridan (1,2nd inning off Ellsworth 0 on, 1 out); Nokes (4,7th inning off Ellsworth 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Rice (2,off Robinson).  IBB–Evans (1,by Robinson).  SB–Pettis (5,2nd base off Ellsworth/Cerone).  WP–Robinson (2).  IBB–Robinson (1,Evans).  U-HP–Steve Palermo, 1B–Dan Morrison, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Vic Voltaggio.  T–2:49.  A–13,862.
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