Kansas City Royals vs Boston Red Sox
April 23, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 23, 1989 at Fenway Park. The Kansas City Royals 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

Kansas City Royals 10, Boston Red Sox 0

Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 4 1 2 2
Seitzer 3b 5 0 1 1
Brett 1b 4 1 2 1
  Tabler ph,1b 0 0 0 0
Tartabull dh 5 1 2 0
Eisenreich rf 4 2 2 1
Jackson lf 4 1 2 2
  Thurman lf 1 0 0 0
Boone c 4 1 3 1
White 2b 3 2 2 1
  Wellman 2b 1 0 0 0
Stillwell ss 5 1 1 1
Leibrandt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 10 17 10
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 4 0 0 0
Barrett 2b 4 0 0 0
Burks cf 4 0 1 0
Greenwell lf 4 0 2 0
Rice dh 3 0 0 0
Evans rf 3 0 0 0
Esasky 1b 3 0 0 0
Cerone c 3 0 1 0
Reed ss 3 0 1 0
Gardner p 0 0 0 0
  Smithson p 0 0 0 0
  Murphy p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 5 0
Kansas City 130 211 10110170
Boston 000 000 000050
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Leibrandt  W (1-2) 9.0 5 0 0 0 4
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
0
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Gardner  L (0-1) 3.2 8 6 6 1 3
  Smithson   3.1 7 3 3 1 0
  Murphy   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Stanley   1.0 2 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
17
10
10
3
4

  E–None.  DP–Kansas City 1.  2B–Kansas City White (5,off Gardner); Wilson (2,off Gardner); Boone 3 (6,off Gardner,off Smithson,off Stanley); Stillwell (2,off Gardner); Brett (1,off Smithson).  HR–Kansas City Jackson (6,2nd inning off Gardner 1 on, 0 out).  SF–Eisenreich (1,off Smithson); White (3,off Smithson).  SB–Wilson (6,2nd base off Gardner/Cerone); Eisenreich (4,2nd base off Gardner/Cerone).  CS–Brett (1,2nd base by Gardner/Cerone); Wilson (1,2nd base by Smithson/Cerone).  U-HP–Tim Welke, 1B–Jim Evans, 2B–John Shulock, 3B–Dan Morrison.  T–2:33.  A–33,116.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook