Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox
April 18, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 18, 1959 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 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 3 2 1 2
Osborne 1b 4 0 0 0
Kuenn cf 3 1 1 1
Kaline rf 4 0 4 1
Maxwell lf 4 0 0 0
  Groth lf 1 0 1 1
Bridges ss 4 0 1 0
Bolling 2b 4 0 2 0
Berberet c 3 2 2 0
Hoeft p 1 0 0 0
  Morgan p 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 12 5
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf 4 0 1 0
Fox 2b 4 0 1 0
Landis cf 4 0 1 0
Boone 1b 1 0 0 0
  Rivera pr 0 0 0 0
  Jackson 1b 0 0 0 0
Skizas lf 3 1 0 0
Romano c 2 1 0 0
  Mueller ph 1 0 0 0
Phillips 3b 4 0 0 0
Esposito ss 2 0 0 0
  Torgeson ph 1 0 0 1
  Rudolph p 0 0 0 0
  Staley p 0 0 0 0
  Cash ph 1 0 1 0
Moore p 2 0 0 0
  Shaw p 0 0 0 0
  Goodman ph 1 0 1 1
  Aparicio pr,ss 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
Detroit 002 000 2015120
Chicago 000 000 200254
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Hoeft  W (1-0) 6.0 2 2 2 4 2
  Morgan  SV (1) 3.0 3 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
5
2
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Moore  L (0-1) 6.1 7 4 2 5 3
  Shaw   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Rudolph   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
  Staley   1.0 2 1 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
12
5
2
6
4

  E–Boone (1), Romano 2 (2), Aparicio (1).  DP–Detroit 1. Yost-Osborne, Chicago 2. Shaw-Romano-Boone, Rudolph-Phillips.  HR–Detroit Yost (3,7th inning off Moore 1 on 1 out).  SH–Hoeft 2 (2,off Moore 2).  SF–Kuenn (1,off Moore).  IBB–Kaline (2,by Staley).  Team LOB–9.  Team–7.  SB–Yost (1,2nd base off Moore/Romano); Kaline (1,2nd base off Moore/Romano).  CS–Kaline (1,2nd base by Moore/Romano).  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–2:42.  A–7,159.
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