Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 17, 1928 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1928 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Detroit Tigers 3, Boston Red Sox 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Galloway 3b 4 2 2 0
Neun 1b 5 0 1 0
Rice cf 5 1 2 0
Heilmann rf 3 0 3 3
Gehringer 2b 3 0 0 0
Fothergill lf 3 0 0 0
Tavener ss 3 0 1 0
Woodall c 4 0 0 0
Billings p 3 0 0 0
  Hargrave ph 1 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 9 3
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Flagstead cf 3 1 1 1
Todt 1b 4 2 1 0
Myer 3b 3 0 0 1
Williams lf 4 1 3 2
Regan 2b 4 0 1 0
Taitt rf 3 0 0 0
Gerber ss 2 0 0 0
Hofmann c 3 0 1 1
Russell p 3 1 1 0
Totals 29 5 8 5
Detroit 101 000 100–392
Boston 103 001 00x–581
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Billings  L(3-5) 7.0 7 5 5 3 1
  Smith   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
3
1
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Russell  W(3-1) 9.0 9 3 3 4 2
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
4
2
  E–Fothergill 2 (2), Regan (2).  DP–Detroit 1. Gehringer-Tavener-Neun, Boston 2. Russell-Gerber, Russell-Todt.  2B–Boston Regan (4).  3B–Boston Todt (2); Russell (1).  HBP–Gehringer (3).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Myer (6); Taitt (3).  Team–5.  SB–Galloway (1); Rice (5).  CS–K. Williams (3).  U–Harry Geisel, Bick Campbell.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."
     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook

Copyright © 2000-2013. All Rights Reserved by Baseball-Almanac. Privacy Policy.Design by Geisler Young. Web hosting by Hosting 4 Less.
Part of the Baseball Almanac family: 755 Home Runs | Baseball Box Scores | Baseball Fever | Football Almanac | Pigskin Fever | Today in Baseball History.