Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
April 16, 1942 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 16, 1942 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 4, Detroit Tigers 5

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Weatherly cf 4 2 2 0
Hockett rf 5 0 2 0
Keltner 3b 5 0 0 0
Heath lf 5 1 1 2
Fleming 1b 4 0 1 0
Boudreau ss 4 0 0 0
Mack 2b 4 0 1 0
Denning c 2 1 1 0
  Desautels c 1 0 0 0
Milnar p 3 0 0 0
  Heving p 0 0 0 0
  Gaffke ph 0 0 0 0
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 4 8 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bloodworth 2b 4 0 1 1
Cramer cf 3 1 2 0
McCosky lf 4 0 0 0
York 1b 4 1 2 2
Higgins 3b 4 0 0 0
Ross rf 3 2 2 1
McNair ss 4 0 1 0
Tebbetts c 2 1 1 1
Bridges p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 9 5
Cleveland 101 001 100481
Detroit 020 020 01x593
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Milnar   5.1 8 4 4 2 0
  Heving   1.2 0 0 0 1 0
  Brown  L(0-1) 1.0 1 1 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
4
0
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bridges  W(1-0) 9.0 8 4 2 2 4
Totals
9.0
8
4
2
2
4

  E–Mack (1), Bloodworth 2 (2), Higgins (1).  DP–Detroit 1. Bloodworth-McNair-York.  2B–Cleveland Denning (2), Detroit Tebbetts (1).  HR–Cleveland Heath (1,7th inning off Bridges 0 on), Detroit York (2,5th inning off Milnar 1 on); Ross (1,8th inning off Brown 0 on).  HBP–Weatherly (1); Fleming (1).  Team LOB–10.  SH–Tebbetts (1).  Team–7.  U–Ernie Stewart, John Quinn, Steve Basil.  T–2:00.  A–4,242.
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