Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox
September 3, 1917 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 3, 1917 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 8, Chicago White Sox 14

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bush ss 5 1 2 0
  Dyer ss 0 0 0 0
Vitt 3b 5 0 2 0
Cobb cf 4 0 2 1
Veach lf 5 0 2 0
Heilmann rf 5 1 1 0
Burns 1b 4 2 1 1
Young 2b 3 1 0 1
Yelle c 3 2 1 2
Boland p 0 1 0 1
  Stanage ph 1 0 1 0
  James p 1 0 0 0
  Cunningham p 1 0 0 0
  Jones ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 8 12 0
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Leibold rf 4 1 1 1
McMullin 3b 5 1 3 0
Collins 2b 5 1 2 0
Jackson lf 3 2 2 2
Felsch cf 5 2 3 0
Gandil 1b 3 1 1 1
Risberg ss 5 3 1 0
Schalk c 4 3 3 0
  Lynn c 1 0 0 0
Faber p 0 0 0 0
  Danforth p 1 0 0 0
  Williams p 0 0 0 0
  Murphy ph 1 0 1 0
  Cicotte p 3 0 0 0
Totals 40 14 17 0
Detroit 043 000 0108123
Chicago 412 303 10x14170
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Boland   2.0 5 5 5 2 0
  James  L(10-9) 3.0 7 5 2 2 1
  Cunningham   3.0 5 4 3 0 1
Totals
8.0
5
4
3
0
1
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Faber   1.1 4 4 4 3 0
  Danforth   0.2 1 2 2 2 1
  Williams   1.0 3 1 1 1 0
  Cicotte  W(23-11) 6.0 4 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
0
1

  E–Bush (49), Dyer (5), Burns (11).  2B–Detroit Burns (10), Chicago E. Collins (14); Risberg (19).  3B–Detroit Heilmann (12).  HR–Chicago Schalk (2,4th inning off James 2 on).  SH–Young (28); Gandil (12).  Team LOB–0.  HBP–Leibold (2).  Team–0.  SB–Yelle (1).  U–George Hildebrand, Bill Dinneen.  T–2:11.  A–25,000.
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