Boston Red Sox vs Tampa Bay Devil Rays
August 28, 2000 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 28, 2000 at Tropicana Field. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays 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 2, Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Offerman 2b 4 0 0 0
Daubach 1b 4 1 2 1
Everett cf 4 0 1 0
Garciaparra ss 4 0 1 0
O'Leary lf 4 0 0 0
Hatteberg dh 2 0 0 0
Merloni 3b 4 0 1 0
Varitek c 3 1 2 1
Nixon rf 3 0 1 0
Ohka p 0 0 0 0
  Pichardo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 8 2
Tampa Bay Devil Rays ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf 4 0 1 0
Cox rf 3 0 0 0
  Guillen rf 0 0 0 0
Vaughn dh 4 1 1 0
McGriff 1b 2 1 2 1
Smith 2b 4 0 0 0
Huff 3b 4 2 2 0
  Johnson 3b 0 0 0 0
DiFelice c 2 1 1 2
Tyner lf 4 0 2 2
Martinez ss 4 0 0 0
Rekar p 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 9 5
Boston 002 000 000280
Tampa Bay 100 000 13x590
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ohka   6.2 5 2 2 2 3
  Pichardo  L (5-3) 1.1 4 3 3 1 2
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
3
5
  Tampa Bay Devil Rays IP H R ER BB SO
Rekar  W (5-9) 8.0 8 2 2 1 1
  Hernandez  SV (26) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
2
2

  E–None.  DP–Boston 1, Tampa Bay 1.  2B–Boston Nixon (23,off Rekar), Tampa Bay Vaughn (24,off Ohka); Huff (4,off Ohka); Tyner (2,off Ohka); Difelice (9,off Pichardo).  HR–Boston Varitek (9,3rd inning off Rekar 0 on, 0 out); Daubach (20,3rd inning off Rekar 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Difelice (5,off Ohka).  HBP–Cox (3,by Ohka).  CS–Everett (4,2nd base by Rekar/Difelice).  HBP–Ohka (1,Cox).  U-HP–Ed Rapuano, 1B–Phil Cuzzi, 2B–Paul Schrieber, 3B–Tim McClelland.  T–2:32.  A–17,721.
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