Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
July 17, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 17, 1940 at Fenway Park. 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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Detroit Tigers 3, Boston Red Sox 8
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Croucher ss 3 0 1 0
McCosky cf 5 1 3 0
Gehringer 2b 4 1 1 1
Greenberg lf 5 0 0 0
York 1b 4 1 0 0
Fox rf 2 0 0 0
Sullivan c 3 0 0 1
Kress 3b 3 0 0 0
Newsom p 2 0 0 0
  Benton p 1 0 0 0
  Trout p 0 0 0 0
  Higgins ph 1 0 0 0
  McKain p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 5 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
DiMaggio rf 3 1 1 0
Cramer cf 4 1 2 0
Cronin ss 4 2 2 1
Williams lf 4 2 3 1
Doerr 2b 3 0 0 0
Tabor 3b 4 1 2 1
Peacock c 4 0 1 0
Owen 1b 4 0 1 2
Wilson p 1 0 0 0
  Ostermueller p 3 1 1 0
Totals 34 8 13 5
Detroit 300 000 000–352
Boston 000 210 50x–8132
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Newsom   4.0 4 2 2 2 0
  Benton  L(4-5) 2.0 6 5 5 1 0
  Trout   1.0 2 1 1 0 1
  McKain   1.0 1 0 0 1 3
Totals
8.0
13
8
8
4
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wilson   3.1 3 3 2 5 1
  Ostermueller  W(1-3) 5.2 2 0 0 2 2
Totals
9.0
5
3
2
7
3
  E–York (10), Benton (2), Tabor (23), Owen (1).  DP–Detroit 1. Croucher-York, Boston 1. Tabor-Doerr-Owen.  2B–Detroit McCosky 2 (20), Boston Cronin (15); Williams (27); Tabor (20).  HBP–York (3).  Team LOB–11.  SH–Cramer (8); Doerr (3).  Team–8.  SB–DiMaggio (1).  CS–Cramer (3).  U-HP–Red Ormsby, 1B–Bill McGowan, 2B–John Quinn, 3B–George Pipgras.
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