The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 2005 at U.S. Cellular Field. The Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees 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)

E –Contreras (1). DP –Chicago 1. Uribe-Blum. 2B –New York A. Rodriguez (22,off Contreras). HR –Chicago Iguchi (12,4th inning off Randy Johnson 0 on 1 out); Rowand (11,4th inning off Randy Johnson 0 on 1 out); Konerko (32,4th inning off Randy Johnson 0 on 1 out); Widger (4,4th inning off Randy Johnson 2 on 1 out). Team LOB –7. Team –2. SB –Ozuna (9,2nd base off Randy Johnson/Flaherty). CS –Ozuna 2 (6,3rd base by Randy Johnson/Flaherty,2nd base by Randy Johnson/Flaherty). U-HP –Randy Marsh, 1B –Jim Wolf, 2B –Sam Holbrook, 3B –Larry Vanover. T –2:18. A –39,480.

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Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."