Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
July 31, 1937 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 31, 1937 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 1, Boston Red Sox 12

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Fox rf 4 1 3 1
Gelbert ss 4 0 0 0
Gehringer 2b 4 0 1 0
Greenberg 1b 3 0 0 0
Walker lf 4 0 2 0
Owen 3b 4 0 0 0
Laabs cf 2 0 0 0
Tebbetts c 3 0 0 0
Wade p 0 0 0 0
  Gill p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 6 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Mills lf 4 3 3 0
Cramer cf 4 0 0 1
Cronin ss 4 1 1 1
Foxx 1b 3 1 1 0
Higgins 3b 5 1 3 3
McNair 2b 4 3 4 1
Chapman rf 4 1 1 0
Desautels c 4 0 0 1
Ostermueller p 4 2 2 3
Totals 36 12 15 10
Detroit 000 001 000164
Boston 420 020 40x12151
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Wade  L(5-6) 1.0 5 6 5 1 1
  Gill   7.0 10 6 4 5 1
Totals
8.0
15
12
9
6
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ostermueller  W(3-5) 9.0 6 1 1 2 6
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
6

  E–Gelbert (3), Gehringer (8), Tebbetts (7), Gill (1), McNair (13).  DP–Detroit 2. Gehringer-Gelbert-Greenberg, Gehringer-Gelbert-Greenberg, Boston 2. Higgins-McNair-Foxx, McNair-Cronin-Foxx.  2B–Boston Mills 2 (19); Foxx (15); McNair (17).  HR–Detroit Fox (6,6th inning off Ostermueller 0 on).  Team LOB–5.  SH–Cramer (11); Desautels (6).  Team–8.  SB–Fox (5); Mills (5); McNair (7); Chapman (27).  U–George Moriarty, Charles Johnston, Brick Owens.  T–1:58.  A–7,200.
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