Boston Red Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
April 6, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 6, 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)
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Boston Red Sox 4, Baltimore Orioles 6

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 3 0 0 0
Barrett 2b 4 0 1 0
Evans rf 3 1 0 0
Greenwell lf 4 2 2 1
Burks cf 4 1 1 1
Rice dh 4 0 1 2
Esasky 1b 4 0 0 0
Gedman c 3 0 0 0
Reed ss 3 0 1 0
Boddicker p 0 0 0 0
  Smithson p 0 0 0 0
  Murphy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 6 4
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Anderson cf 3 1 1 0
Bradley lf 5 0 1 1
Orsulak rf 4 1 1 0
Ripken, Jr. ss 3 1 0 0
Sheets dh 4 1 2 2
Tettleton c 2 1 1 2
Traber 1b 4 0 1 0
  Melendez 1b 0 0 0 0
Worthington 3b 4 0 1 1
Gonzales 2b 4 1 2 0
Bautista p 0 0 0 0
  Williamson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 6 10 6
Boston 300 000 001461
Baltimore 300 110 10x6101
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Boddicker   2.1 4 3 3 2 5
  Smithson  L (0-1) 4.2 6 3 3 0 2
  Murphy   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
10
6
6
2
8
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Bautista  W (1-0) 8.0 6 4 4 2 2
  Williamson  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
4
4
2
2

  E–Reed (1), Bautista (1).  DP–Baltimore 1.  PB–Gedman (1).  2B–Boston Burks (1,off Bautista), Baltimore Gonzales (1,off Smithson); Sheets (1,off Smithson).  HR–Boston Greenwell (2,9th inning off Bautista 0 on, 0 out), Baltimore Tettleton (1,7th inning off Smithson 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Anderson (1,off Smithson); Tettleton (1,off Smithson).  HBP–Anderson (1,by Boddicker).  SB–Anderson (2,3rd base off Boddicker/Gedman).  HBP–Boddicker (1,Anderson).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Steve Palermo, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Don Denkinger.  T–2:34.  A–22,041.
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