The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 25, 1953 at Busch Stadium I. 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)
Boston Red Sox 7, St. Louis Browns 6
Boston Red Sox | ab | r | h | rbi |
Goodman 2b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Evers lf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Zarilla ph,lf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stephens lf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gernert 1b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Kell 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
White c | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Umphlett cf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Piersall rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lipon ss | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Nixon p | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Delock p | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Consolo ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kinder p | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Henry p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Flowers p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 34 | 7 | 11 | 7 |
St. Louis Browns | ab | r | h | rbi |
Young 2b | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Kokos lf | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Edwards cf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Groth cf | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Wertz rf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lenhardt ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kryhoski 1b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Sievers ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Courtney c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dyck 3b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Berry ss | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hunter ss | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brecheen p | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Paige p | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stuart p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 36 | 6 | 9 | 5 |
Boston | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | 11 | 1 | ||
St. Louis | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | 9 | 0 |
Boston Red Sox | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Nixon | 3.0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Delock | 3.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Kinder | 2.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Henry | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Flowers SV(1) | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 9.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
St. Louis Browns | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Brecheen | 7.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Paige L(1-8) | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stuart | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 9.0 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
E –Goodman (10). DP –St. Louis 2. Brecheen-Kryhoski, Kryhoski-Young. 2B –Boston Kell (30,off Brecheen); Umphlett (19,off Paige), St. Louis Kryhoski (11,off Nixon); Groth (21,off Kinder). HR –Boston White (10,2nd inning off Brecheen 0 on 0 out), St. Louis Kokos (8,6th inning off Delock 0 on 2 out). SH –Piersall (14,off Stuart). Team LOB –2. IBB –Wertz (2,by Nixon). Team –8. U-HP –Johnny Stevens, 1B –Bill Summers, 2B –Jim Duffy, 3B –Red Flaherty. T –2:29. A –1,857. |
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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."