Milwaukee Brewers vs Kansas City Royals
September 7, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 7, 1971 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 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

Milwaukee Brewers 3, Kansas City Royals 4

Milwaukee Brewers ab   r   h rbi
Harper lf 4 0 2 0
  Sanders p 0 0 0 0
  Pena ph 1 0 1 0
  Tepedino pr 0 0 0 0
Theobald 2b 5 1 2 0
Cardenal cf 5 0 1 2
Briggs 1b 3 1 1 0
May rf,lf 4 0 2 0
Porter c 3 0 2 1
  Rodriguez ph,c 1 0 0 0
Kosco 3b 4 0 0 0
Heise ss 2 0 1 0
  Matchick ph 0 1 0 0
  Auerbach ss 1 0 0 0
Pattin p 2 0 0 0
  Voss ph,rf 1 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 12 3
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Patek ss 3 1 0 0
Valdespino lf 4 1 1 1
Otis cf 4 2 4 0
Hopkins 1b 3 0 0 0
Oliver rf 3 0 1 2
Schaal 3b 3 0 1 0
Knoop 2b 4 0 0 0
Martinez c 3 0 0 0
Drago p 3 0 1 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
  Abernathy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 8 3
Milwaukee 000 100 2003121
Kansas City 000 120 10x481
  Milwaukee Brewers IP H R ER BB SO
Pattin   6.0 7 3 3 3 4
  Sanders  L (7-9) 2.0 1 1 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
8
4
3
3
7
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Drago   6.2 11 3 3 1 3
  Burgmeier  W (9-7) 1.2 1 0 0 1 1
  Abernathy  SV (21) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
3
3
2
4

  E–Porter (1), Drago (2).  DP–Milwaukee 1, Kansas City 2.  2B–Milwaukee Briggs (9,off Drago); Cardenal (6,off Drago); Pena (9,off Burgmeier), Kansas City Valdespino (4,off Pattin).  SF–Oliver (4,off Pattin).  IBB–Hopkins (9,by Pattin).  SB–Otis 5 (47,2nd base off Pattin/Porter 3,2nd base off Sanders/Porter,3rd base off Sanders/Porter); Patek (48,2nd base off Pattin/Porter).  IBB–Pattin (10,Hopkins).  U-HP–Don Denkinger, 1B–Art Frantz, 2B–(none), 3B–Nestor Chylak.  T–2:40.  A–5,905.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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