Detroit Tigers vs New York Yankees
May 2, 1952 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 2, 1952 at Yankee Stadium I. The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 1, New York Yankees 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Priddy 2b 3 1 0 0
Kell 3b 3 0 2 0
Groth cf 4 0 0 0
Wertz rf 4 0 0 1
Souchock lf 3 0 0 0
Kolloway 1b 4 0 0 0
Batts c 4 0 0 0
Lipon ss 2 0 0 0
Gray p 2 0 0 0
  Mullin ph 1 0 0 0
  Hutchinson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 2 1
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Rizzuto ss 3 2 2 1
Mantle rf 4 0 1 0
McDougald 2b 2 0 1 2
Berra c 2 0 0 0
Mize 1b 3 0 0 1
  Collins 1b 0 0 0 0
Cerv cf 4 0 1 0
Bauer lf 4 1 1 0
Carey 3b 4 0 0 0
Lopat p 2 1 0 0
Totals 28 4 6 4
Detroit 100 000 000121
New York 003 010 00x462
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Gray  L(1-3) 7.0 6 4 2 6 5
  Hutchinson   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
6
4
2
6
6
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Lopat  W(1-1) 9.0 2 1 1 4 4
Totals
9.0
2
1
1
4
4

  E–Priddy (2), Carey 2 (2).  DP–Detroit 2. Batts-Priddy, Priddy-Lipon-Kolloway.  2B–New York Rizzuto (3,off Gray).  Team LOB–6.  HBP–Mize (1,by Gray).  Team–7.  CS–McDougald (2,2nd base by Gray/Batts); Rizzuto (2,2nd base by Gray/Batts).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Jim Duffy, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–2:05.  A–7,540.
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