Boston Red Sox vs Chicago Cubs
September 5, 1918 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 5, 1918 at Comiskey Park I. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Boston Red Sox 1, Chicago Cubs 0

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Hooper rf 4 0 1 0
Shean 2b 2 1 1 0
Strunk cf 3 0 0 0
Whiteman lf 4 0 2 0
McInnis 1b 2 0 1 1
Scott ss 4 0 0 0
Thomas 3b 3 0 0 0
Agnew c 3 0 0 0
Ruth p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 5 1
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Flack rf 3 0 1 0
Hollocher ss 3 0 0 0
Mann lf 4 0 1 0
Paskert cf 4 0 2 0
Merkle 1b 3 0 1 0
Pick 2b 3 0 0 0
  O'Farrell ph 1 0 0 0
Deal 3b 4 0 1 0
  McCabe pr 0 0 0 0
Killefer c 4 0 0 0
Vaughn p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 6 0
Boston 000 100 000150
Chicago 000 000 000060
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ruth  W (1-0) 9.0 6 0 0 1 4
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
1
4
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Vaughn  L (0-1) 9.0 5 1 1 3 6
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
3
6

  E–None.  SH–McInnis (1,off Vaughn); Strunk (1,off Vaughn); Hollocher (1,off Ruth).  IBB–McInnis (1,by Vaughn).  HBP–Flack (1,by Ruth).  CS–Hooper (1,2nd base by Vaughn/Killefer).  HBP–Ruth (1,Flack).  IBB–Vaughn (1,McInnis).  U-HP–Hank O'Day (NL), 1B–George Hildebrand (AL), 2B–Bill Klem (NL), 3B–Brick Owens (AL).  T–1:50.  A–19,274.
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