Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers
May 11, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 11, 1940 at Briggs Stadium. The Chicago White 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 1, Detroit Tigers 0

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Kennedy 3b 4 0 1 1
Kuhel 1b 4 0 0 0
Kreevich cf 4 0 0 0
Wright rf 4 0 0 0
Appling ss 2 0 0 0
Rosenthal lf 3 0 0 0
McNair 2b 3 0 0 0
Tresh c 3 1 1 0
Knott p 2 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 2 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bartell ss 3 0 1 0
  Metha pr 0 0 0 0
Campbell rf 3 0 1 0
Gehringer 2b 4 0 0 0
Averill lf 4 0 0 0
York 1b 3 0 0 0
Fox cf 3 0 0 0
Higgins 3b 3 0 0 0
Tebbetts c 1 0 0 0
  Sullivan ph,c 1 0 0 0
Bridges p 2 0 0 0
Totals 27 0 2 0
Chicago 001 000 000120
Detroit 000 000 000022
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Knott  W(2-0) 9.0 2 0 0 3 6
Totals
9.0
2
0
0
3
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bridges  L(2-2) 9.0 2 1 1 2 6
Totals
9.0
2
1
1
2
6

  E–Campbell (2), Higgins (6).  DP–Detroit 1. Bartell-Gehringer-York.  Team LOB–3.  SH–Campbell (2).  Team–4.  U–Bill Summers, John Quinn, George Pipgras.  T–1:58.  A–24,525.
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