Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
September 24, 1954 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 24, 1954 at Cleveland Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 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 6, Cleveland Indians 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 2 0 0 0
  Bertoia ss 1 0 1 0
  Souchock 3b 2 0 0 0
Hatfield 2b 5 1 2 0
Delsing lf 5 1 2 2
Boone 3b,ss 3 2 2 1
Belardi 1b 4 1 0 0
Kaline rf 3 0 2 1
Tuttle cf 2 1 1 0
Wilson c 3 0 0 1
Gray p 4 0 0 0
  Marlowe p 0 0 0 0
  Aber p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 10 5
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith lf 5 1 1 0
Majeski 2b 5 1 1 0
Doby cf 4 0 1 1
Rosen 3b 4 1 1 1
  Pope pr 0 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 4 0 1 0
Westlake rf 3 0 0 0
Strickland ss 1 1 1 2
Hegan c 3 0 0 0
Lemon p 2 0 0 0
  Avila ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 6 4
Detroit 211 000 0206100
Cleveland 000 001 003460
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Gray  W(3-5) 8.2 5 4 4 8 3
  Marlowe   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Aber  SV(3) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
4
4
8
3
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L(23-7) 9.0 10 6 6 4 2
Totals
9.0
10
6
6
4
2

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Lemon-Majeski-Wertz, Cleveland 1. Lemon-Majeski-Wertz.  2B–Detroit Bertoia (2,off Lemon); Delsing (23,off Lemon), Cleveland Wertz (15,off Gray).  HR–Detroit Delsing (5,1st inning off Lemon 1 on 1 out); Boone (20,3rd inning off Lemon 0 on 2 out), Cleveland Strickland (6,9th inning off Gray 0 on 0 out).  SF–Wilson (1,off Lemon); Strickland (6,off Gray).  IBB–Tuttle (6,by Lemon).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Lemon (8,off Gray).  Team–10.  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–2:18.  A–3,788.
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