Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Royals
April 9, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 9, 1989 at Royals Stadium. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 8, Kansas City Royals 6

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 5 1 4 0
Barrett 2b 5 1 1 1
Burks cf 5 2 2 3
Greenwell lf 3 2 1 0
Rice dh 5 0 2 1
Evans rf 5 0 1 1
Esasky 1b 4 1 1 0
Reed ss 4 0 0 0
Cerone c 2 0 1 0
  Heep pr 0 1 0 0
  Gedman c 1 0 0 0
Gardner p 0 0 0 0
  Dopson p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Murphy p 0 0 0 0
  Smithson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 8 13 6
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Eisenreich cf 4 1 2 0
Seitzer 3b 5 2 3 1
Brett 1b 4 0 2 0
Tabler rf 5 1 1 2
Buckner dh 5 0 1 1
Jackson lf 4 0 0 0
Boone c 3 1 1 0
White 2b 3 0 0 1
Stillwell ss 3 0 0 0
  Wilson ph 1 1 1 0
Leibrandt p 0 0 0 0
  Montgomery p 0 0 0 0
  Gleaton p 0 0 0 0
  Aquino p 0 0 0 0
  Farr p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 11 5
Boston 000 200 6008131
Kansas City 310 001 0016113
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Gardner   0.2 3 3 3 3 0
  Dopson  W (1-0) 5.2 4 2 1 1 4
  Stanley   2.0 3 1 1 0 0
  Murphy   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Smithson  SV (1) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
6
5
4
4
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Leibrandt   6.1 8 5 4 2 1
  Montgomery  L (2-1) 0.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Gleaton   0.0 0 1 1 1 0
  Aquino   1.2 2 0 0 0 2
  Farr   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
13
8
7
3
3

  E–Reed (2), Seitzer 3 (4).  DP–Kansas City 3.  2B–Boston Cerone (1,off Leibrandt); Esasky (2,off Leibrandt); Rice (1,off Farr), Kansas City Seitzer (1,off Gardner); Boone (2,off Dopson); Wilson (1,off Stanley).  3B–Boston Burks (1,off Montgomery).  IBB–Boone (1,by Gardner).  SB–Seitzer (2,2nd base off Dopson/Cerone).  CS–Stillwell (1,2nd base by Dopson/Cerone).  WP–Dopson (1), Aquino (1).  IBB–Gardner (1,Boone).  U-HP–Rick Reed, 1B–Mark Johnson, 2B–Dale Scott, 3B–Al Clark.  T–3:05.  A–25,637.
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