Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 15, 1918 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 15, 1918 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red 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 4, Boston Red Sox 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bush ss 4 2 3 1
Walker lf 4 0 1 2
Cobb cf 4 0 0 0
Veach rf 3 0 0 0
Heilmann 1b 4 0 0 0
Vitt 3b 4 0 2 0
Young 2b 4 0 0 0
Yelle c 4 1 1 0
Dauss p 4 1 2 0
Totals 35 4 9 3
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Hooper rf 4 0 2 2
Shean 2b 3 0 2 0
Strunk cf 3 2 1 0
Whiteman lf 4 0 1 0
McInnis 1b 3 0 1 2
Thomas 3b 3 0 0 0
  Schang ph 0 1 0 0
Scott ss 4 1 1 0
Agnew c 3 0 0 0
  Hoblitzell ph 1 0 1 1
Ruth p 3 1 1 0
Totals 31 5 10 5
Detroit 003 010 000491
Boston 000 111 0025104
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Dauss  L(1-1) 8.1 10 5 5 4 1
Totals
8.1
10
5
5
4
1
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ruth  W(4-3) 9.0 9 4 3 1 1
Totals
9.0
9
4
3
1
1

  E–Walker (2), Shean (5), Whiteman (5), Thomas (1), Ruth (5).  DP–Boston 1. Ruth-Scott-McInnis.  2B–Detroit Bush (2); Dauss (1), Boston Whiteman (4); Ruth (8).  3B–Detroit Walker (2).  Team LOB–5.  SH–Shean (13); McInnis (10).  Team–7.  SB–Shean (4); Strunk (8).  U–George Moriarty, Silk O'Loughlin.
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