Boston Red Sox vs California Angels
September 3, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 3, 1988 at Anaheim Stadium. The California Angels 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, California Angels 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 3 0 1 0
Barrett 2b 4 0 1 0
Burks cf 4 0 1 0
Greenwell lf 4 0 1 0
Benzinger rf,1b 3 0 1 0
Rice dh 4 0 1 0
Parrish 1b 3 1 2 1
  Evans rf 1 0 0 0
Reed ss 4 0 0 0
Gedman c 4 0 0 0
Boddicker p 0 0 0 0
  Lamp p 0 0 0 0
  Rochford p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 8 1
California Angels ab   r   h rbi
McLemore 2b 4 1 1 0
Ray dh 3 0 1 0
Joyner 1b 4 0 1 1
Davis rf,cf 4 1 1 0
Howell 3b 2 0 0 0
Armas cf 0 0 0 0
  Hendrick rf 2 0 1 0
Brown lf 3 0 0 0
Boone c 2 0 2 1
  Downing ph 1 0 0 0
  Miller c 0 0 0 0
Schofield ss 3 0 0 0
Witt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 7 2
Boston 000 000 100180
California 010 000 01x270
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Boddicker   7.0 5 1 1 2 2
  Lamp  L (6-4) 0.2 1 1 1 1 0
  Rochford   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Smith   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
7
2
2
3
3
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Witt  W (12-12) 9.0 8 1 1 2 6
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
2
6

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2.  HR–Boston Parrish (11,7th inning off Witt 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–Benzinger (3,by Witt).  SB–Rice (1,3rd base off Witt/Boone); C Davis (6,2nd base off Boddicker/Gedman); McLemore (10,2nd base off Lamp/Gedman).  CS–Howell (6,2nd base by Boddicker/Gedman).  IBB–Witt (7,Benzinger).  U-HP–Tim McClelland, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Drew Coble, 3B–Don Denkinger.  T–2:46.  A–33,376.
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