Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
July 21, 2003 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 21, 2003 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 5, Boston Red Sox 14

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Sanchez cf 4 2 2 0
Morris 2b 5 1 1 1
Young lf 4 1 2 2
Pena 1b 5 0 3 2
Monroe dh 5 0 0 0
Munson 3b 4 0 1 0
Halter ss 3 0 0 0
Walbeck c 2 1 1 0
  Petrick c 2 0 1 0
Torres rf 4 0 1 0
Bonderman p 0 0 0 0
  Sparks p 0 0 0 0
  Rodney p 0 0 0 0
  Spurling p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 12 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Damon cf 6 2 2 1
Walker 2b 4 2 2 3
Garciaparra ss 4 1 2 1
  Jackson ss 0 1 0 0
Ramirez lf 4 2 4 3
  Kapler lf 0 0 0 0
Millar 1b 4 2 2 0
  Mirabelli ph,1b 1 0 1 1
Nixon rf 3 2 0 0
Mueller 3b 5 1 2 2
Giambi dh 3 1 2 2
Varitek c 4 0 1 1
Burkett p 0 0 0 0
  Fossum p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 14 18 14
Detroit 000 030 1015120
Boston 057 010 10x14181
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bonderman  L (3-14) 2.0 8 7 7 1 0
  Sparks   3.0 7 6 6 4 2
  Rodney   2.0 1 1 1 2 2
  Spurling   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
18
14
14
7
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burkett  W (8-4) 5.0 8 3 3 1 4
  Fossum  SV (1) 4.0 4 2 2 2 2
Totals
9.0
12
5
5
3
6

  E–Millar (3).  DP–Detroit 1, Boston 1.  2B–Detroit Sanchez (8,off Burkett), Boston Millar 2 (25,off Bonderman 2); Mueller (31,off Bonderman); Walker (22,off Bonderman); Damon (27,off Sparks); Garciaparra 2 (28,off Sparks 2); Ramirez (23,off Sparks); Mirabelli (8,off Rodney).  HR–Detroit D Young (20,7th inning off Fossum 0 on, 0 out), Boston Ramirez (23,3rd inning off Bonderman 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Varitek (5,off Sparks).  U-HP–Chuck Meriwether, 1B–Lance Barksdale, 2B–Gary Cederstrom, 3B–Mark Wegner.  T–2:38.  A–33,823.
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