The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 2, 1951 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Browns 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)
St. Louis Browns 6, Boston Red Sox 11
Boston Red Sox | ab | r | h | rbi |
DiMaggio cf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Pesky ss | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Williams lf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Stephens 3b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Dropo 1b | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Goodman 2b | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Vollmer rf | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Moss c | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Boudreau ph | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hatfield pr | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Rosar c | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stobbs p | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Taylor p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wight p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Maxwell ph | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Kinder p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 35 | 11 | 14 | 11 |
St. Louis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | 10 | 1 | ||
Boston | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | x | – | 11 | 14 | 2 |
St. Louis Browns | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Sanford L(2-7) | 4.0 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
Mahoney | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Paige | 2.0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Totals | 8.0 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 3 |
Boston Red Sox | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Stobbs W(8-4) | 6.1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
Taylor | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wight | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kinder | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Totals | 9.0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
E –Maguire (2), Pesky (17), Goodman (5). DP –St. Louis 3. Marsh-Lollar-Arft, Mahoney-Marsh-Young, Marsh-Young-Arft. 2B –St. Louis Marsh (10,off Stobbs); Jennings (3,off Taylor), Boston DiMaggio (26,off Sanford); Vollmer (7,off Sanford); Pesky (9,off Sanford). 3B –Boston Goodman (3,off Sanford). HR –St. Louis Maguire (1,7th inning off Stobbs 0 on 0 out), Boston Maxwell (3,7th inning off Paige 3 on 0 out). Team LOB –11. Team –9. U –Bill McKinley, Hank Soar, Bill McGowan. T –2:37. A –23,005. |
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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."