Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
August 22, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 22, 1940 at Fenway Park. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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 9, Boston Red Sox 8

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Fox rf 5 1 1 0
McCosky cf 6 2 2 3
Higgins 3b 4 1 1 1
Greenberg lf 4 1 1 1
York 1b 4 0 1 1
Meyer 2b 5 1 2 1
Tebbetts c 3 1 1 0
Bartell ss 4 1 1 0
Newsom p 1 0 0 1
  Hutchinson p 4 1 2 1
Totals 40 9 12 9
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
DiMaggio cf 5 1 1 0
Cramer rf 5 0 0 0
Foxx c 4 1 0 0
Williams lf 5 2 3 2
Cronin ss 4 2 3 3
Doerr 2b 5 1 3 3
Finney 1b 3 0 0 0
Gelbert 3b 4 0 0 0
  Spence ph 1 0 0 0
Johnson p 2 1 0 0
  Galehouse p 0 0 0 0
  Bagby p 2 0 0 0
  Peacock ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 41 8 10 8
Detroit 112 400 000 19123
Boston 350 000 000 08102
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Newsom   1.2 6 8 0 3 2
  Hutchinson  W(3-4) 8.1 4 0 0 1 3
Totals
10.0
10
8
0
4
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson   3.0 5 5 5 3 1
  Galehouse   0.0 2 3 3 1 0
  Bagby  L(8-14) 7.0 5 1 1 2 2
Totals
10.0
12
9
9
6
3

  E–Fox (5), Higgins (23), Meyer (2), Williams (11), Cronin (30).  2B–Detroit Greenberg (42); Meyer (2); Tebbetts (17), Boston DiMaggio (21); Williams (37); Doerr (23).  3B–Detroit McCosky 2 (15), Boston Cronin (6).  HR–Boston Cronin (20,1st inning off Newsom 2 on); Doerr (17,2nd inning off Newsom 2 on).  SH–Tebbetts (2).  Team LOB–8.  Team–7.  CS–Tebbetts (2).  U–Cal Hubbard, George Pipgras, George Moriarty.  T–2:32.  A–6,600.
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