Cleveland Indians vs Boston Red Sox
September 3, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 3, 1971 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians 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

Cleveland Indians 2, Boston Red Sox 9

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Ford rf 5 0 0 0
Pinson cf 5 0 2 0
Fosse c 4 0 0 0
Nettles 3b 4 0 0 0
Chambliss 1b 4 1 2 0
Bevacqua lf 4 0 1 1
Camilli 2b 3 0 0 0
Stanley ss 2 0 0 0
McDowell p 1 0 0 0
  Foster ph 1 0 0 0
  Hargan p 0 0 0 0
  Hodge ph 1 1 1 1
  Ballinger p 0 0 0 0
  Kaiser p 0 0 0 0
  Hinton ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 6 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Griffin 2b 5 1 2 0
Aparicio ss 5 2 3 1
Yastrzemski lf 5 1 2 3
Smith cf 4 1 1 0
Petrocelli 3b 4 1 0 0
Scott 1b 3 2 2 3
Conigliaro rf 3 0 0 0
Josephson c 4 1 2 1
Moret p 4 0 0 0
Totals 37 9 12 8
Cleveland 010 000 100262
Boston 203 000 31x9122
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
McDowell  L (12-13) 3.0 5 5 4 2 5
  Hargan   3.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Ballinger   1.0 3 3 3 0 0
  Kaiser   1.0 2 1 1 0 2
Totals
8.0
12
9
8
2
8
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Moret  W (2-2) 9.0 6 2 2 5 8
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
5
8

  E–McDowell 2 (3), Aparicio (14), Scott (10).  DP–Cleveland 1, Boston 1.  2B–Boston Griffin 2 (18,off McDowell,off Kaiser); Smith (28,off McDowell).  3B–Cleveland Chambliss (4,off Moret).  HR–Cleveland Hodge (1,7th inning off Moret 0 on, 0 out), Boston Scott 2 (22,3rd inning off McDowell 1 on, 0 out,7th inning off Ballinger 0 on, 2 out); Yastrzemski (15,7th inning off Ballinger 1 on, 0 out); Josephson (9,8th inning off Kaiser 0 on, 0 out).  SB–Yastrzemski (7,2nd base off McDowell/Fosse).  WP–Kaiser (1).  U-HP–Bill Haller, 1B–Jake O'Donnell, 2B–Frank Umont, 3B–Lou DiMuro.  T–2:31.  A–16,086.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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