Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
April 21, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 21, 1940 at Cleveland Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 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 12, Cleveland Indians 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McCosky cf 5 4 3 0
Campbell rf 3 1 2 2
  Fox rf 0 1 0 0
Gehringer 2b 4 2 1 1
Greenberg lf 4 2 2 2
York 1b 5 0 1 2
Higgins 3b 5 1 3 2
Bartell ss 4 0 1 0
Tebbetts c 5 0 1 0
Rowe p 5 1 1 0
Totals 40 12 15 9
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Boudreau ss 4 0 2 0
Weatherly cf 4 0 0 0
Chapman rf 4 0 0 0
Trosky 1b 4 1 1 1
Heath lf 4 1 1 0
Keltner 3b 2 0 0 0
Hemsley c 3 0 1 0
Mack 2b 3 0 0 1
Feller p 1 0 0 0
  Eisenstat p 1 0 0 0
  Jungels p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell ph 1 0 0 0
  Dobson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
Detroit 105 202 011–12150
Cleveland 010 000 100–252
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Rowe  W(1-0) 9.0 5 2 2 2 1
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
2
1
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Feller  L(1-1) 3.0 6 6 6 2 1
  Eisenstat   3.0 6 4 4 1 0
  Jungels   2.0 1 1 1 1 1
  Dobson   1.0 2 1 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
15
12
11
4
3
  E–Trosky (1), Mack (1).  DP–Detroit 1. McCosky-Rowe-Gehringer.  2B–Detroit McCosky 2 (2); Campbell 2 (2); Higgins (1), Cleveland Boudreau 2 (2).  3B–Detroit York (1).  HR–Cleveland Trosky (1,7th inning off Rowe 0 on).  SH–Fox (1).  HBP–Greenberg (1).  Team LOB–7.  Team–4.  SB–McCosky (1); Fox (1).  U–Red Ormsby, Steve Basil, Bill Grieve.  T–2:10.  A–18,264.
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