Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 18, 1953 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1953 at Fenway Park. 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)
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Detroit Tigers 5, Boston Red Sox 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hatfield 3b 4 1 1 0
Kuenn ss 4 0 1 0
Pesky 2b 4 1 1 0
Dropo 1b 5 1 3 1
Delsing cf 4 0 0 0
Souchock lf 3 1 2 2
  Mullin lf 1 1 1 0
  Carswell ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Ginsberg c 3 0 1 0
  Nieman ph 1 0 0 0
  Bucha c 0 0 0 0
Lund rf 4 0 1 2
Garver p 4 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 11 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Piersall rf 5 1 2 0
Stephens lf 4 0 0 0
Kell 3b 3 1 0 0
Gernert 1b 2 0 0 0
White c 3 0 1 2
Lepcio 2b 3 0 1 0
Umphlett cf 4 0 0 0
Bolling ss 4 0 0 0
Hudson p 2 0 1 0
  Wilber ph 1 0 0 0
  Kennedy p 0 0 0 0
  Baker ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
Detroit 300 100 1005111
Boston 002 000 000250
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  W(3-4) 9.0 5 2 2 5 3
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
5
3
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Hudson  L(1-2) 7.0 10 5 5 4 2
  Kennedy   2.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
11
5
5
4
3

  E–Hatfield (2).  DP–Detroit 1. Hatfield-Pesky-Dropo.  2B–Detroit Hatfield (3,off Hudson); Souchock (3,off Hudson); Dropo (8,off Hudson); Lund (6,off Hudson)., Boston Piersall (4,off Garver); White (7,off Garver).  3B–Detroit Souchock (1,off Hudson); Dropo (2,off Kennedy).  HBP–Pesky (1,by Hudson); Lepcio (1,by Garver).  Team LOB–11.  Team–8.  U-HP–Grover Froese, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Johnny Stevens, 3B–Scotty Robb.
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