Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
May 5, 1929 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 5, 1929 at Navin Field. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 2, Detroit Tigers 10
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Rothrock cf 4 0 0 0
Rhyne ss 3 0 0 0
  Narleski ss 2 1 1 0
Scarritt lf 3 1 0 0
Taitt rf 4 0 1 1
Gillis 2b 4 0 2 1
Reeves 3b 4 0 0 0
Todt 1b 2 0 1 0
Heving c 3 0 2 0
  Bigelow ph 1 0 0 0
  Asbjornson c 0 0 0 0
Morris p 2 0 0 0
  MacFayden p 1 0 1 0
  Williams ph 0 0 0 0
  Durham p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Johnson lf 4 2 2 0
Rice cf 4 2 2 3
Gehringer 2b 5 2 3 3
Heilmann rf 5 1 2 2
Alexander 1b 5 0 1 1
McManus 3b 4 1 1 1
Phillips c 4 0 1 0
Schuble ss 4 1 2 0
Prudhomme p 3 1 1 0
Totals 38 10 15 10
Boston 100 000 001–280
Detroit 002 502 01x–10151
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Morris  L(2-2) 3.1 9 7 7 2 3
  MacFayden   3.2 5 2 2 2 3
  Durham   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
15
10
10
4
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Prudhomme  W(1-1) 9.0 8 2 1 7 4
Totals
9.0
8
2
1
7
4
  E–Schuble (6).  DP–Detroit 1. McManus-Gehringer-Alexander.  2B–Boston Narleski (2); MacFayden (1), Detroit Johnson (5); Rice (5); Heilmann (7); Alexander (8); Prudhomme (1).  3B–Detroit Schuble (1).  HR–Detroit Gehringer (4,8th inning off Durham 0 on); McManus (3,4th inning off Morris 0 on).  SH–Scarritt (2); Williams (1).  Team LOB–13.  Team–8.  SB–Johnson 2 (4); Gehringer (3).  CS–Rice (5).  U–Red Ormsby, Brick Owens.
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