Baltimore Orioles vs Boston Red Sox
September 13, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 13, 1988 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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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Baltimore Orioles 4, Boston Red Sox 6

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Orsulak rf 5 1 1 0
Anderson cf 4 0 0 0
Ripken, Jr. ss 4 0 0 0
Murray 1b 3 2 3 1
Sheets lf 3 1 2 1
  Davis pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Tettleton c 4 0 1 2
Traber dh 3 0 0 0
Schu 3b 4 0 1 0
Ripken 2b 2 0 0 0
  Hughes ph 1 0 0 0
  Gonzales 2b 0 0 0 0
  Stanicek ph 1 0 0 0
Harnisch p 0 0 0 0
  Williamson p 0 0 0 0
  Thurmond p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 8 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 3 1 2 1
Barrett 2b 3 0 0 0
Evans rf 4 0 0 0
Greenwell lf 3 1 0 0
Burks cf 2 2 0 0
Rice dh 4 1 2 4
  Kutcher pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Parrish 1b 3 0 1 0
  Benzinger 1b 1 0 0 0
Reed ss 4 1 3 1
Gedman c 2 0 0 0
  Romine ph 1 0 0 0
  Cerone c 0 0 0 0
Smithson p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 6 8 6
Baltimore 000 200 020480
Boston 004 000 11x680
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Harnisch  L (0-1) 7.0 6 5 5 3 5
  Williamson   0.2 2 1 1 1 0
  Thurmond   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
6
6
4
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Smithson  W (8-5) 5.2 4 2 2 2 2
  Stanley   2.0 4 2 2 0 2
  Smith  SV (25) 1.1 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
3
5

  E–None.  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Baltimore Tettleton (10,off Smithson); Murray 2 (25,off Smithson,off Stanley); Orsulak (20,off Stanley); Sheets (19,off Stanley), Boston Boggs 2 (40,off Harnisch 2); Reed (21,off Harnisch).  HR–Boston Rice (12,3rd inning off Harnisch 3 on, 2 out).  SH–Barrett (19,off Harnisch); Gedman (7,off Harnisch).  WP–Harnisch (1).  U-HP–Durwood Merrill, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–Tim Welke.  T–2:59.  A–32,842.
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