Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
May 4, 1939 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 4, 1939 at Briggs Stadium. 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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Boston Red Sox 7, Detroit Tigers 6

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Cramer cf 4 1 0 0
Vosmik lf 5 1 1 0
Foxx 1b 2 1 1 0
Cronin ss 4 2 1 2
Williams rf 4 2 2 5
Tabor 3b 4 0 0 0
Doerr 2b 4 0 2 0
Peacock c 4 0 1 0
Bagby p 1 0 0 0
  Galehouse p 2 0 0 0
  Heving p 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 7 8 7
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McCosky cf 5 1 3 0
Walker lf 5 0 0 0
Gehringer 2b 4 3 2 0
Greenberg 1b 5 1 3 2
York c 4 1 2 2
Fox rf 4 0 1 2
Rogell 3b 4 0 0 0
Croucher ss 3 0 0 0
Lawson p 1 0 0 0
  Harris p 1 0 0 0
  Cullenbine ph 1 0 0 0
  Trout p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 11 6
Boston 000 250 000781
Detroit 202 010 1006112
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Bagby   2.1 5 4 4 2 0
  Galehouse   4.0 5 2 2 2 1
  Heving  W(2-1) 2.2 1 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
11
6
6
4
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lawson  L(1-1) 4.1 5 6 5 2 2
  Harris   3.2 3 1 1 1 1
  Trout   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
7
6
3
4

  E–Foxx (2), Fox (3), Croucher (3).  DP–Detroit 1. Harris-Croucher-Greenberg.  2B–Boston Doerr (5), Detroit McCosky (7); Gehringer (6); Greenberg 2 (7).  HR–Boston Williams 2 (3,4th inning off Lawson 1 on,5th inning off Harris 2 on), Detroit York (1,3rd inning off Bagby 1 on).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Fox (1); Lawson (1).  Team–10.  CS–Doerr (2).  U–Bill Summers, Steve Basil, Red Ormsby.  T–2:25.  A–5,550.
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