Chicago White Sox vs Boston Red Sox
August 6, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 6, 1986 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White Sox 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

Chicago White Sox 0, Boston Red Sox 9

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Cangelosi cf 4 0 1 0
Nichols lf 4 0 1 0
Baines rf 3 0 0 0
Fisk c 3 0 1 0
Hulett 3b 3 0 0 0
Morman 1b 3 0 0 0
Calderon dh 3 0 0 0
Guillen ss 2 0 0 0
  Giles ph 1 0 0 0
Cruz 2b 3 0 0 0
Bannister p 0 0 0 0
  Dawley p 0 0 0 0
  Thigpen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 3 0
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 2 3 2 0
Barrett 2b 4 3 3 2
Rice lf 4 1 1 0
  Greenwell lf 1 0 1 1
Baylor dh 5 1 2 1
Evans rf 4 1 1 1
Buckner 1b 4 0 3 4
  Stapleton 1b 0 0 0 0
Armas cf 4 0 1 0
  Romine cf 0 0 0 0
Romero ss 4 0 1 0
Sullivan c 4 0 0 0
Hurst p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 9 15 9
Chicago 000 000 000030
Boston 430 000 02x9150
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Bannister  L (6-9) 0.0 5 4 4 1 0
  Dawley   5.0 5 3 3 2 2
  Thigpen   3.0 5 2 2 2 2
Totals
8.0
15
9
9
5
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Hurst  W (7-5) 9.0 3 0 0 0 4
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
0
4

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 2, Boston 1.  PB–Fisk (7).  2B–Chicago Nichols (3,off Hurst), Boston Buckner 2 (28,off Dawley 2).  HR–Boston Barrett (3,1st inning off Bannister 1 on, 0 out).  WP–Bannister (5).  U-HP–Rocky Roe, 1B–John Hirschbeck, 2B–Larry Barnett, 3B–Nick Bremigan.  T–2:31.  A–33,517.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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