New York Mets vs Boston Red Sox
June 7, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 7, 1998 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Mets 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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New York Mets 0, Boston Red Sox 5

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
McRae cf 3 0 1 0
Alfonzo 3b 4 0 1 0
Gilkey lf 4 0 0 0
  Rojas p 0 0 0 0
Olerud 1b 4 0 0 0
Huskey rf 4 0 1 0
Baerga 2b 3 0 0 0
Tatum dh,c 3 0 0 0
Castillo c 2 0 0 0
  Becker ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Ordonez ss 2 0 0 0
  Lopez ph,ss 1 0 1 0
Yoshii p 0 0 0 0
  Hudek p 0 0 0 0
  Cook p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 4 0
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Lewis cf 4 1 1 0
Jefferson dh 3 1 2 1
Garciaparra ss 4 1 1 0
Vaughn 1b 3 2 1 1
O'Leary lf 4 0 2 2
Valentin 3b 3 0 1 1
Hatteberg c 3 0 0 0
Benjamin 2b 3 0 0 0
Bragg rf 3 0 0 0
Avery p 0 0 0 0
  Garces p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 8 5
New York 000 000 000040
Boston 004 010 00x581
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Yoshii  L (4-2) 5.0 8 5 5 2 2
  Hudek   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Cook   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Rojas   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
2
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Avery  W (3-1) 7.0 3 0 0 1 4
  Garces   2.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
2
6

  E–Vaughn (6).  DP–New York 1, Boston 1.  2B–Boston Garciaparra (7,off Yoshii); Valentin (17,off Yoshii).  3B–New York McRae (2,off Avery).  HR–Boston Vaughn (18,5th inning off Yoshii 0 on, 2 out).  CS–Alfonzo (1,2nd base by Avery/Hatteberg).  SB–Lewis (9,2nd base off Yoshii/Castillo).  U-HP–Jim McKean, 1B–Jim Joyce, 2B–Al Clark, 3B–Terry Craft.  T–2:15.  A–30,630.
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