Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
August 8, 1945 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 8, 1945 at Briggs Stadium. 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Boston Red Sox 2, Detroit Tigers 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Lake ss 4 0 1 0
LaForest 3b 3 0 0 0
  Lazor ph 1 0 1 0
  Tobin 3b 0 0 0 0
Metkovich cf 4 0 0 1
Johnson lf 3 0 0 0
Fox rf 3 0 0 0
Newsome 2b 4 0 1 0
Camilli 1b 4 1 1 0
Garbark c 4 1 2 0
Ferriss p 4 0 1 1
Totals 34 2 7 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Webb ss 3 0 0 1
Borom 2b 4 0 1 1
Cullenbine rf 4 0 1 1
Greenberg lf 4 2 3 0
York 1b 3 1 1 0
Outlaw cf 4 0 2 0
Maier 3b 4 1 1 0
Swift c 3 1 2 0
Overmire p 2 0 0 0
  Benton p 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 11 3
Boston 000 000 020273
Detroit 010 001 12x5110
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ferriss  L(18-5) 8.0 11 5 3 2 2
Totals
8.0
11
5
3
2
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Overmire  W(8-8) 7.1 5 2 2 1 4
  Benton  SV(2) 1.2 2 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
2
5

  E–Lake (21), B. Johnson 2 (6).  2B–Boston Newsome (15); Garbark (6), Detroit Greenberg 2 (6); Maier (14).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Webb (8); Overmire (4).  Team–7.  U–Art Passarella, Bill McGowan, Eddie Rommel.
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