Boston Red Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
April 3, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 3, 1989 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Boston Red Sox 4, Baltimore Orioles 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 4 1 2 0
Barrett 2b 3 0 0 0
Evans rf 5 1 1 1
Greenwell lf 4 1 2 2
Burks cf 5 0 0 0
Rice dh 5 0 1 0
Esasky 1b 4 1 2 0
Gedman c 5 0 1 0
Reed ss 5 0 1 1
Clemens p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
  Murphy p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Smithson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 4 10 4
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Anderson cf 4 2 3 0
Bradley lf 4 1 0 0
Finley rf 1 0 0 0
  Orsulak rf 4 0 1 1
Ripken, Jr. ss 5 1 1 3
Sheets dh 5 0 1 0
Tettleton c 3 1 1 0
Traber 1b 3 0 1 0
  Milligan ph,1b 2 0 2 0
Worthington 3b 5 0 2 1
Gonzales 2b 4 0 0 0
Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
  Hickey p 0 0 0 0
  Holton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 5 12 5
Boston 000 003 100 004100
Baltimore 000 103 000 015120
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Clemens   7.0 7 4 4 3 4
  Smith   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Murphy   0.1 1 0 0 0 1
  Stanley  L (0-1) 2.0 3 1 1 1 0
  Smithson   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.1
12
5
5
4
7
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Schmidt   6.1 7 4 4 1 3
  Hickey   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Holton  W (1-0) 4.1 3 0 0 2 2
Totals
11.0
10
4
4
3
5

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2.  PB–Tettleton (1).  2B–Boston Boggs (1,off Schmidt); Evans (1,off Schmidt); Esasky (1,off Schmidt), Baltimore Anderson 2 (2,off Clemens 2).  HR–Boston Greenwell (1,6th inning off Schmidt 1 on, 1 out), Baltimore C Ripken (1,6th inning off Clemens 2 on, 1 out).  SH–Barrett 2 (2,off Schmidt,off Holton).  IBB–Greenwell (1,by Holton).  SB–Greenwell (1,2nd base off Holton/Tettleton); Anderson (1,2nd base off Clemens/Gedman).  CS–Esasky (1,2nd base by Holton/Tettleton); Worthington (1,2nd base by Clemens/Gedman).  IBB–Holton (1,Greenwell).  U-HP–Don Denkinger, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Steve Palermo, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–3:52.  A–52,161.
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