Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox
August 9, 1946 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1946 at Comiskey Park I. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago White Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 5, Chicago White Sox 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Lake ss 3 1 1 0
Kell 3b 5 0 1 0
Evers cf 5 1 3 1
Greenberg 1b 5 0 1 0
Wakefield lf 5 2 5 2
Cullenbine rf 3 1 1 0
Webb 2b 5 0 1 1
Tebbetts c 4 0 1 1
Hutchinson p 2 0 0 0
  Benton p 1 0 0 0
  Newhouser p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 14 5
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Tucker cf 4 1 1 0
Appling ss 4 1 3 2
Kuhel 1b 4 0 1 0
Wright rf 5 0 3 2
Hayes c 5 0 0 0
Kennedy lf 4 0 1 0
Lodigiani 3b 2 1 0 0
Michaels 2b 4 0 0 0
Smith p 1 0 1 0
  Platt ph 1 0 0 0
  Haynes p 1 1 0 0
  Hodgin ph 1 0 0 0
  Caldwell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 10 4
Detroit 102 010 0105141
Chicago 000 012 0014102
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Hutchinson  W(8-8) 5.2 8 3 3 5 2
  Benton   2.1 2 1 1 1 1
  Newhouser  SV(1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
6
5
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Smith  L(7-8) 5.0 8 4 4 4 1
  Haynes   3.0 5 1 1 0 0
  Caldwell   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
14
5
5
4
1

  E–Tebbetts (8), Appling (30), Hayes (10).  DP–Detroit 1. Hutchinson-Lake-Greenberg, Chicago 2. Michaels, Michaels-Appling-Kuhel.  2B–Detroit Wakefield 2 (7), Chicago Wright 2 (8); Kennedy (9).  HR–Detroit Wakefield (6,8th inning off Haynes 0 on).  HBP–Lake (3).  Team LOB–11.  Team–11.  SB–Appling (5); Kuhel (1); Lodigiani (3).  U–Bill McKinley, Jim Boyer, Eddie Rommel.  T–2:19.  A–31,833.
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