Boston Red Sox vs Chicago White Sox
July 8, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 8, 1988 at Comiskey Park I. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White 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 10, Chicago White Sox 7

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Reed ss 5 0 1 1
Barrett 2b 5 1 1 0
Boggs 3b 5 1 2 0
Greenwell lf 5 2 3 1
Burks cf 4 3 2 4
Rice dh 4 1 1 1
Benzinger 1b 5 1 3 0
Gedman c 5 1 2 1
Romine rf 5 0 1 1
Ellsworth p 0 0 0 0
  Lamp p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Totals 43 10 16 9
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Redus lf 5 1 2 0
Lyons 3b 4 1 1 0
Baines dh 3 1 1 1
Pasqua rf 4 1 0 0
Walker 1b 3 0 0 0
Williams cf 3 0 0 1
Guillen ss 3 1 1 1
Manrique 2b 4 0 0 0
Karkovice c 3 1 2 1
  Boston ph 1 1 1 2
Long p 0 0 0 0
  Rosenberg p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Horton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 8 6
Boston 020 170 00010161
Chicago 410 000 002782
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ellsworth   1.2 4 5 4 2 1
  Lamp  W (3-3) 6.1 2 0 0 0 4
  Smith   1.0 2 2 2 0 2
Totals
9.0
8
7
6
2
7
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Long  L (3-4) 4.1 9 7 6 0 1
  Rosenberg   0.0 4 3 3 0 0
  Patterson   3.2 3 0 0 1 2
  Horton   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
16
10
9
1
3

  E–Barrett (5), Lyons (14), Pasqua (1).  DP–Boston 2.  2B–Boston Benzinger (9,off Rosenberg); Gedman (4,off Patterson), Chicago Redus (10,off Lamp).  3B–Boston Greenwell (3,off Long).  HR–Boston Burks 2 (10,2nd inning off Long 1 on, 0 out,5th inning off Long 1 on, 1 out), Chicago Karkovice (3,2nd inning off Ellsworth 0 on, 0 out); Boston (8,9th inning off Smith 1 on, 2 out).  SF–Rice (3,off Long); Guillen (3,off Ellsworth).  HBP–Williams (6,by Ellsworth).  CS–Williams (4,2nd base by Ellsworth/Gedman).  WP–Patterson (1).  BK–Lamp (6).  HBP–Ellsworth (1,Williams).  U-HP–Tim McClelland, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Drew Coble, 3B–Nick Bremigan.  T–2:58.  A–18,963.
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