Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
May 9, 1917 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 1917 at Navin Field. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 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)
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Cleveland Indians 1, Detroit Tigers 9
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Graney lf 4 0 0 0
Chapman ss 3 1 1 0
Speaker cf 4 0 0 0
Guisto 1b 4 0 0 0
Roth rf 4 0 1 0
Wambsganss 2b 4 0 1 0
Turner 3b 3 0 1 0
Billings c 3 0 1 0
Morton p 0 0 0 0
  Miller ph 1 0 0 0
  Lambeth p 0 0 0 0
  Gould p 2 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 5 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bush ss 3 2 2 0
Young 2b 5 0 0 0
Cobb rf 5 2 2 1
Veach lf 4 1 1 0
Crawford 1b 3 1 1 2
Heilmann cf 4 2 4 2
Vitt 3b 4 0 2 0
Spencer c 3 1 2 2
Jones p 4 0 0 0
Totals 35 9 14 7
Cleveland 000 001 000–154
Detroit 224 001 00x–9140
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Morton  L(0-3) 2.0 6 4 1 0 3
  Lambeth   0.1 4 4 2 0 0
  Gould   5.2 4 1 1 3 1
Totals
8.0
4
1
1
3
1
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Jones  W(1-2) 9.0 5 1 1 2 4
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
2
4
  E–Chapman 2 (13), Morton (2), Lambeth (1).  DP–Cleveland 1. Wambsganss-Chapman-Guisto.  2B–Detroit Heilmann (5); Spencer (2).  3B–Cleveland Roth (3).  HBP–Billings (1).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Crawford (3).  Team–5.  U–Silk O'Loughlin, George Hildebrand.
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