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box score

noun

Sports.
  1. a record of the play of a game, especially a baseball or basketball game, in which, on separate sides of the record, the players on each team are listed in a column by name and position, with additional rows of columns, each headed by the abbreviation of the type of information to be given for each player.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of box score1

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
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Example Sentences

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“But he did a lot of really good things. … There were a few plays that he made just getting deflections and disrupting plays … some plays at the rim that don’t show up in the box score, but he was awesome.”

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The concerns for the Lakers moving forward can be found all over the final box score, the 19-point edge in fast-break points showing how much faster Minnesota played.

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After expending so much blood, sweat and tears to reach the majors, their reward was a single yellowed newspaper box score with their name in it.

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“Never judge a player by his box score,” JJ Redick said of Goodwin, who had just two points and four fouls.

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That involved creating a box score, a visual map of the fictional game that would unfold throughout the film.

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