Boston Red Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
June 17, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 17, 1988 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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 2, Baltimore Orioles 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 5 1 1 0
Barrett 2b 3 0 0 0
Boggs 3b 4 0 1 1
Evans rf 4 0 0 0
Greenwell lf 4 0 1 0
Rice dh 3 0 0 0
Gedman c 4 0 0 0
Owen ss 4 0 0 0
Dodson 1b 3 1 0 0
Boyd p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
  Lamp p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 3 1
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Orsulak lf,rf 5 0 1 0
Ripken 2b 5 0 0 0
Ripken, Jr. ss 3 0 0 0
Murray dh 4 1 1 0
Traber 1b 4 1 2 1
Lynn cf 4 1 2 2
Sheets rf 3 0 1 0
  Gerhart pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Tettleton c 4 0 0 0
Gonzales 3b 4 0 0 0
Tibbs p 0 0 0 0
  Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 7 3
Boston 002 000 000 00231
Baltimore 000 002 000 01371
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Boyd   8.0 6 2 2 3 6
  Smith   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
  Lamp  L (1-3) 1.1 1 1 1 1 1
Totals
10.1
7
3
3
5
8
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Tibbs   9.0 3 2 0 3 5
  Schmidt  W (3-2) 2.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
11.0
3
2
0
4
6

  E–Gedman (1), Tettleton (2).  DP–Boston 1, Baltimore 2.  2B–Boston Boggs (17,off Tibbs).  HR–Baltimore Lynn (9,6th inning off Boyd 1 on, 1 out).  SF–Boggs (3,off Tibbs).  SB–Murray (4,2nd base off Lamp/Gedman).  CS–Gerhart (1,2nd base by Smith/Gedman).  U-HP–Don Denkinger, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Drew Coble, 3B–Tim McClelland.  T–3:16.  A–34,340.
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