Philadelphia Athletics vs St. Louis Browns
May 12, 1917 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 12, 1917 at Sportsman's Park III. The St. Louis Browns defeated the Philadelphia Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Philadelphia Athletics 0, St. Louis Browns 4

Philadelphia Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Witt ss 4 0 1 0
Grover 2b 4 0 0 0
Bodie lf 4 0 1 0
Strunk cf 4 0 3 0
Johnson rf 4 0 0 0
McInnis 1b 4 0 1 0
Bates 3b 4 0 3 0
Schang c 4 0 0 0
Falkenberg p 2 0 0 0
  Thrasher ph 1 0 0 0
  Seibold p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 0 9 0
St. Louis Browns ab   r   h rbi
Shotton lf 3 1 2 1
Austin 3b 4 1 2 0
Sisler 1b 4 1 1 0
Jacobson rf 3 0 1 0
Marsans cf 3 0 0 0
Johnson 2b 3 0 0 0
Severeid c 3 0 0 0
Lavan ss 3 1 2 0
Sothoron p 2 0 0 0
Totals 28 4 8 0
Philadelphia 000 000 000091
St. Louis 300 010 00x480
  Philadelphia Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Falkenberg  L(0-2) 6.0 7 4 3 0 1
  Seibold   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
1
0
0
1
0
  St. Louis Browns IP H R ER BB SO
Sothoron  W(4-1) 9.0 9 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
9
0
0
0
3

  E–McInnis (5).  2B–Philadelphia Strunk (8); Bates (5), St. Louis Austin (6).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Sothoron (1).  Team–2.  U–Dick Nallin, Billy Evans.  T–1:37.  A–5,000.
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