Detroit Tigers vs Philadelphia Athletics
May 17, 1920 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1920 at Shibe Park. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 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 9, Philadelphia Athletics 7

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Young 2b 3 0 0 0
Bush ss 2 2 1 0
Cobb cf 3 3 2 3
Veach lf 5 0 2 2
Heilmann 1b 4 1 1 0
Flagstead rf 3 2 2 3
Hale 3b 4 0 0 0
Stanage c 3 1 0 0
Dauss p 2 0 1 0
Totals 29 9 9 8
Philadelphia Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Dykes 2b 5 1 1 1
Thomas 3b 2 0 0 0
  Strunk ph 1 1 1 1
Walker lf 5 1 1 2
Burns rf 4 1 1 1
Welch cf 5 2 2 0
Griffin 1b 5 0 1 0
Perkins c 0 0 0 2
  Myatt c 4 1 2 0
Galloway ss 4 0 1 0
Kinney p 0 0 0 0
  Rommel p 0 0 0 0
  Bigbee p 3 0 0 0
  Burrus ph 1 0 0 0
  Moore p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 7 10 7
Detroit 430 010 100993
Philadelphia 000 011 0237102
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Dauss  W(3-5) 9.0 10 7 5 3 5
Totals
9.0
10
7
5
3
5
  Philadelphia Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Kinney  L(2-3) 1.0 4 4 4 0 0
  Rommel   1.0 2 3 3 2 0
  Bigbee   6.0 3 2 1 3 1
  Moore   1.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
9.0
9
9
8
7
1

  E–Bush 2 (9), Hale (3), Myatt (1), Galloway (14).  DP–Philadelphia 2. Dykes, Moore-Thomas-Griffin.  2B–Detroit Veach (8); Heilmann (6), Philadelphia Myatt (1).  3B–Detroit Dauss (1), Philadelphia Dykes (2); Strunk (1); Welch (2).  HR–Detroit Cobb (1,1st inning off Kinney 1 on); Flagstead 2 (2,1st inning off Kinney 1 on,5th inning off Bigbee 0 on), Philadelphia T. Walker (3,9th inning off Dauss 1 on); Burns (1,8th inning off Dauss 0 on).  SH–Young (5); Bush 2 (9); Dauss (1).  Team LOB–4.  Team–8.  SB–Hale (1).  U–George Moriarty, Tommy Connolly.
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