Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers
April 20, 1939 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 20, 1939 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago White 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit Tigers 8
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Owen 3b 7 0 0 0
Kuhel 1b 6 0 1 0
Walker lf 7 0 1 0
Appling ss 5 2 2 0
Kreevich cf 5 2 0 0
Steinbacher rf 4 1 2 2
McNair 2b 5 2 1 2
Silvestri c 6 0 2 0
Whitehead p 1 0 0 0
  Rosenthal ph 1 0 0 0
  Knott p 0 0 0 0
  Radcliff ph 0 0 0 1
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 0 0 0 1
  Lee p 2 0 0 0
Totals 49 7 9 6
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McCosky cf 6 1 4 0
Walker lf 6 2 3 3
Gehringer 2b 7 1 2 0
Greenberg 1b 6 1 3 1
York c 6 0 1 0
  Christman pr 0 0 0 0
  Tebbetts c 0 0 0 0
Fox rf 6 1 3 1
Rogell 3b 6 1 1 1
Croucher ss 6 1 2 1
Benton p 3 0 0 0
  Lawson p 3 0 0 0
Totals 55 8 19 7
Chicago 000 020 401 000 00–791
Detroit 030 022 000 000 01–8191
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Whitehead   5.0 12 5 4 0 5
  Knott   1.0 2 2 2 0 1
  Brown   2.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Lee  L(0-1) 5.1 3 1 1 2 1
Totals
13.1
19
8
7
2
8
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Benton   7.0 7 6 4 1 4
  Lawson  W(1-0) 7.0 2 1 1 5 2
Totals
14.0
9
7
5
6
6
  E–Silvestri (2), Rogell (1).  DP–Chicago 2. Owen-McNair-Kuhel, Silvestri-McNair, Detroit 1. Croucher-Gehringer-Greenberg.  2B–Chicago Walker (1); Silvestri (1), Detroit McCosky 2 (2); Rogell (1).  3B–Detroit Greenberg (1).  HR–Detroit Walker (1,6th inning off Knott 1 on); Greenberg (1,14th inning off Lee 0 on 1 out).  SH–Radcliff (1); Thompson (1); Walker (1).  Team LOB–8.  Team–10.  SB–Walker (1).  U–John Quinn, Bill Grieve, Bill McGowan.  T–3:25.  A–7,361.
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.