Detroit Tigers vs Chicago Cubs
October 8, 1945 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 8, 1945 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Detroit Tigers 7, Chicago Cubs 8

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Webb ss 3 0 0 0
  Hostetler ph 1 0 0 0
  Hoover ss 3 1 1 1
Mayo 2b 6 0 1 1
Cramer cf 6 1 2 1
Greenberg lf 5 2 1 1
Cullenbine rf 5 1 2 1
York 1b 6 0 2 1
Outlaw 3b 5 0 1 0
Richards c 0 0 0 1
  Maier ph 1 0 1 0
  Swift c 2 1 1 0
Trucks p 1 0 0 0
  Caster p 0 0 0 0
  McHale ph 1 0 0 0
  Bridges p 0 0 0 0
  Benton p 0 0 0 0
  Walker ph 1 1 1 0
  Trout p 2 0 0 0
Totals 48 7 13 7
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Hack 3b 5 1 4 3
Johnson 2b 4 0 0 0
Lowrey lf 5 1 1 0
Cavarretta 1b 5 1 2 2
Pafko cf 6 0 2 0
Nicholson rf 5 0 0 0
Livingston c 3 2 2 1
  Gillespie ph 1 0 0 0
  Williams c 1 0 0 0
Hughes ss 4 1 3 2
  Becker ph 0 0 0 0
  Block pr 0 0 0 0
  Merullo ss 0 0 0 0
  Secory ph 1 0 1 0
  Schuster pr 0 1 0 0
Passeau p 3 1 0 0
  Wyse p 1 0 0 0
  Prim p 0 0 0 0
  Borowy p 2 0 0 0
Totals 46 8 15 8
Detroit 010 000 240 0007131
Chicago 000 041 200 0018153
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Trucks   4.1 7 4 4 2 3
  Caster   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Bridges   1.2 3 3 3 3 1
  Benton   0.1 1 0 0 0 1
  Trout  L (1-1) 4.2 4 1 1 2 3
Totals
11.2
15
8
8
7
9
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Passeau   6.2 5 3 3 6 2
  Wyse   0.2 3 3 2 1 0
  Prim   0.2 1 1 0 0 0
  Borowy  W (2-1) 4.0 4 0 0 0 0
Totals
12.0
13
7
5
7
2

  E–Richards (1), Hack 2 (3), Johnson (1).  DP–Detroit 1, Chicago 1.  2B–Detroit York (1,off Passeau); Walker (1,off Wyse), Chicago Livingston (3,off Bridges); Hughes (1,off Bridges); Pafko (2,off Trout); Hack (3,off Trout).  HR–Detroit Greenberg (2,8th inning off Prim 0 on, 2 out).  IBB–Outlaw (1,by Passeau); Richards (2,by Passeau); Becker (1,by Trout).  Team LOB–12.  SH–Johnson 2 (4,off Trucks,off Trout).  Team–12.  SB–Cullenbine (1,2nd base off Passeau/Livingston).  CS–Hoover (1,2nd base by Borowy/Williams).  IBB–Trout (1,Becker); Passeau 2 (2,Outlaw,Richards).  U-HP–Lou Jorda (NL), 1B–Art Passarella (AL), 2B–Jocko Conlan (NL), 3B–Bill Summers (AL).  T–3:28.  A–41,708.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook