Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
September 20, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 20, 1940 at Briggs 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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Cleveland Indians 5, Detroit Tigers 6
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Chapman lf 5 1 1 0
Weatherly cf 5 2 3 1
Boudreau ss 5 0 3 3
Trosky 1b 4 0 1 0
  Grimes pr 0 0 0 0
Bell rf 5 1 1 0
Keltner 3b 5 0 3 1
Mack 2b 4 0 1 0
Pytlak c 3 1 1 0
Harder p 4 0 1 0
  Feller p 0 0 0 0
  Dobson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 5 15 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bartell ss 2 0 0 0
  Sullivan ph 1 0 0 0
  Croucher ss 0 0 0 0
McCosky cf 2 1 1 0
Gehringer 2b 3 2 1 0
Greenberg lf 4 1 2 1
York 1b 4 1 1 2
Higgins 3b 4 0 2 1
Fox rf 4 1 1 0
Tebbetts c 3 0 0 0
Newsom p 2 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
  Mullin ph 1 0 0 0
  Newhouser p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell ph 1 0 1 1
  Benton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 9 5
Cleveland 001 021 001–5154
Detroit 000 100 05x–691
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Harder   7.1 4 3 3 4 4
  Feller  L(26-10) 0.0 3 2 2 0 0
  Dobson   0.2 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
5
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Newsom   5.2 11 4 4 1 3
  Smith   1.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Newhouser  W(9-9) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Benton  SV(17) 1.0 3 1 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
15
5
4
2
4
  E–Bell (7), Mack (26), Pytlak (1), Harder (2), Higgins (27).  2B–Cleveland Weatherly 2 (35); Bell (20); Keltner (24).  Team LOB–10.  Team–6.  CS–Keltner (5); McCosky (7).  U-HP–Bill McGowan, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Steve Basil, 3B–George Pipgras.  T–2:55.  A–22,508.
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