Tampa Bay Devil Rays vs Boston Red Sox
September 29, 2002 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 29, 2002 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Tampa Bay Devil Rays 8, Boston Red Sox 11

Tampa Bay Devil Rays ab   r   h rbi
Rolls rf 5 2 1 2
Crawford lf 5 0 1 2
Winn cf 5 1 1 2
Huff 1b 5 0 1 0
Hall c 4 2 3 0
Sandberg 3b 3 0 1 0
Grieve dh 4 1 2 1
Abernathy 2b 3 2 2 1
Escalona ss 4 0 0 0
James p 0 0 0 0
  Alvarez p 0 0 0 0
  Harper p 0 0 0 0
  Yan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 8 12 8
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Damon cf 2 0 0 0
  Andrews 1b 2 2 1 0
Agbayani lf 4 0 1 0
Garciaparra ss 2 0 2 0
  Sanchez pr,ss 1 1 0 0
Floyd dh 4 1 1 2
  Ramirez ph,dh 0 0 0 1
  Henderson pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Hillenbrand 3b 4 2 2 2
Nixon rf,cf 5 2 3 2
Varitek c 2 2 2 2
Daubach 1b,rf 4 1 3 2
Merloni 2b 5 0 0 0
Fossum p 0 0 0 0
  Castillo p 0 0 0 0
  Urbina p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 11 15 11
Tampa Bay 010 034 0008121
Boston 020 052 20x11151
  Tampa Bay Devil Rays IP H R ER BB SO
James   4.2 10 6 6 3 0
  Alvarez  L (2-3) 0.2 2 3 3 1 1
  Harper   1.2 3 2 1 1 1
  Yan   1.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
8.0
15
11
10
7
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Fossum   5.1 8 7 4 1 6
  Castillo  W (6-15) 2.2 4 1 1 1 3
  Urbina  SV (40) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
12
8
5
2
11

  E–Escalona (11), Hillenbrand (23).  DP–Tampa Bay 3, Boston 1.  PB–Hall (4).  2B–Tampa Bay Hall (19,off Fossum); Grieve 2 (30,off Fossum,off Castillo); Abernathy 2 (18,off Fossum 2); Rolls (6,off Castillo), Boston Hillenbrand (43,off James); Nixon 2 (36,off James 2); Andrews (1,off James); Daubach (24,off Alvarez); Floyd (21,off Alvarez).  HR–Tampa Bay Winn (14,5th inning off Fossum 1 on, 2 out), Boston Varitek (10,7th inning off Harper 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Hillenbrand (5,off Harper).  HBP–Varitek (7,by Alvarez); Andrews (1,by Alvarez).  HBP–Alvarez 2 (4,Varitek,Andrews).  U-HP–Mark Wegner, 1B–Bill Welke, 2B–Rick Reed, 3B–Tim Tschida.  T–3:00.  A–32,194.
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