Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
June 27, 1939 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 27, 1939 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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 0, Cleveland Indians 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McCosky cf 4 0 0 0
Fox rf 4 0 0 0
Averill lf 3 0 1 0
Higgins 3b 3 0 0 0
Kress 2b 3 0 0 0
Greenberg 1b 3 0 0 0
Rogell ss 3 0 0 0
  York ph 0 0 0 0
Tebbetts c 4 0 0 0
Newsom p 0 0 0 0
  Bell ph 1 0 0 0
  Coffman p 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 1 0
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Hemsley c 2 1 1 1
Campbell rf 3 1 3 2
Chapman cf 3 0 1 1
Trosky 1b 3 0 0 1
Heath lf 4 0 1 0
Keltner 3b 4 0 1 0
Grimes 2b 4 1 2 0
Webb ss 4 1 1 0
Feller p 3 1 0 0
Totals 30 5 10 5
Detroit 000 000 000012
Cleveland 220 100 00x5101
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Newsom  L(7-5) 2.0 5 4 4 1 1
  Coffman   6.0 5 1 1 2 2
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
3
3
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Feller  W(12-3) 9.0 1 0 0 6 13
Totals
9.0
1
0
0
6
13

  E–Kress (11), Tebbetts (5), Grimes (15).  DP–Detroit 1. Kress-Rogell-Greenberg.  3B–Cleveland Hemsley (2).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Hemsley 2 (7); Trosky (6).  Team–7.  SB–Grimes (3).  U-HP–Joe Rue, 1B–Harry Geisel, 2B–Steve Basil, 3B–Red Ormsby.  T–2:03.  A–55,305.
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