St. Louis Browns vs Detroit Tigers
April 19, 1953 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 19, 1953 at Briggs Stadium. The St. Louis Browns 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

St. Louis Browns 6, Detroit Tigers 3

St. Louis Browns ab   r   h rbi
Groth cf 5 0 2 1
Young 2b 6 1 3 1
Dyck lf 4 0 0 0
  Kokos ph,lf 0 1 0 0
Wertz rf 5 0 2 1
Elliott 3b 6 1 2 1
Sievers 1b 6 2 2 0
Moss c 2 0 1 1
  Courtney ph,c 2 0 1 1
Hunter ss 4 0 2 0
  Kryhoski ph 0 0 0 0
  Miranda pr,ss 0 0 0 0
Trucks p 2 0 0 0
  Edwards ph 1 0 0 0
  White p 0 0 0 0
  Cain p 1 0 0 0
  Holloman p 0 0 0 0
  Stuart p 1 0 1 0
  Berry pr 0 1 0 0
  Paige p 0 0 0 0
Totals 45 6 16 6
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 0 1 0
Friend 2b 5 1 1 0
  Ginsberg ph 1 0 0 0
Sullivan lf 3 1 1 0
  Carswell ph 1 0 0 0
  Lund lf 1 0 0 0
Dropo 1b 5 1 1 1
Nieman rf 3 0 1 0
Delsing cf 3 0 1 0
Baumgartner 3b 4 0 0 1
  Mullin ph 1 0 0 0
  Hitchcock 3b 0 0 0 0
Batts c 3 0 1 1
  Hatfield pr 0 0 0 0
  Bucha c 2 0 0 0
Garver p 3 0 1 0
  Wight p 0 0 0 0
  Pesky ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 41 3 8 3
St. Louis 000 101 100 036162
Detroit 100 200 000 00380
  St. Louis Browns IP H R ER BB SO
Trucks   5.0 4 3 2 1 4
  White   1.2 1 0 0 1 1
  Cain   1.2 2 0 0 1 0
  Holloman   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Stuart  W(2-0) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Paige  SV(2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
11.0
8
3
2
4
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  L(0-2) 10.1 15 6 6 4 6
  Wight   0.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
11.0
16
6
6
4
7

  E–Young (1), Trucks (1).  DP–Detroit 1. Kuenn-Friend-Dropo.  2B–St. Louis Elliott (1,off Garver); Sievers (3,off Garver); Stuart (1,off Garver)., Detroit Friend (1,off Trucks).  SH–Groth (3,off Garver); Nieman (1,off Trucks); Garver (1,off White)..  HBP–Moss (1,by Garver).  Team LOB–12.  Team–11.  CS–Miranda (1,2nd base by Garver/Bucha).  U-HP–Art Passarella, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–Jim Duffy, 3B–Bill Grieve.  T–3:32.  A–7,048.
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