Baltimore Orioles 3 – 6 Boston Red Sox

5 August 1972 · BOS07

The three rarest things in this game

Rarity	What	Who	Rate
41	Steal of Home	Brooks Robinson	1 in 107 games
38	6 RBI	Rico Petrocelli	1 in 1,786 player-games
19	final score 6–3		1 in 41 games

Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	7	0
Boston Red Sox	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	–	6	8	1

Box score

Baltimore Orioles batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Don Buford	4	0	1	1	0	1
Paul Blair	4	1	1	0	0	0
Bobby Grich	4	1	1	0	0	1
Boog Powell	4	0	0	0	0	1
Don Baylor	4	0	1	1	0	1
Brooks Robinson	4	0	1	0	0	0
Johnny Oates	4	1	1	0	0	0	2B
Mark Belanger	3	0	1	0	0	0	2B
Dave McNally	1	0	0	0	0	1
Roric Harrison	1	0	0	0	0	1
Terry Crowley	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	34	3	7	2	0	6

Baltimore Orioles pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Dave McNally	2.1	6	6	6	2	1
Roric Harrison	3.2	1	0	0	1	3
Eddie Watt	2.0	1	0	0	0	0

Boston Red Sox batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Tommy Harper	4	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Griffin	4	2	2	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	4	2	2	0	0	0
Reggie Smith	3	1	1	0	1	0
Rico Petrocelli	4	1	3	6	0	1	HR, 2B
Carlton Fisk	4	0	0	0	0	2
Danny Cater	1	0	0	0	2	0
Luis Aparicio	3	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Tiant	3	0	0	0	0	1
Totals	30	6	8	6	3	4

Boston Red Sox pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Luis Tiant	9.0	7	3	3	0	6

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