Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
May 6, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 6, 1959 at Briggs Stadium. The Boston Red Sox 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)
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Boston Red Sox 17, Detroit Tigers 6

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Buddin ss 5 1 1 1
Keough cf 5 2 2 1
Runnels 2b 6 2 2 1
Jensen rf 4 3 1 2
Malzone 3b 5 2 2 3
Gernert 1b 5 3 3 4
Geiger lf 5 3 4 4
White c 4 1 2 1
Brewer p 1 0 0 0
  Baumann p 4 0 1 0
Totals 44 17 18 17
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Lepcio 3b 4 0 1 0
Osborne 1b 5 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 2 3 0
Kaline cf 3 2 2 4
  Yost ph 1 0 0 0
  Zernial rf 1 0 0 0
Doby rf 2 0 0 0
  Groth ph,rf,cf 3 1 2 0
Bridges ss 4 0 1 0
Berberet c 4 1 3 2
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Foytack p 2 0 0 0
  Morgan p 1 0 0 0
  Susce p 0 0 0 0
  Burnside p 0 0 0 0
  Kuenn ph 1 0 0 0
  Sisler p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 6 13 6
Boston 000 015 56017180
Detroit 202 000 0206130
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Brewer   3.0 8 4 4 1 2
  Baumann  W (1-0) 6.0 5 2 2 1 5
Totals
9.0
13
6
6
2
7
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  L (0-4) 5.2 6 5 5 1 1
  Morgan   0.2 5 4 4 0 0
  Susce   1.1 4 6 6 3 1
  Burnside   0.1 3 2 2 2 0
  Sisler   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
18
17
17
7
2

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Bridges-Bolling-Osborne.  2B–Boston Geiger (1,off Morgan); Gernert (6,off Susce)., Detroit Maxwell (1,off Brewer).  3B–Boston Keough (2,off Morgan).  HR–Boston Malzone (5,5th inning off Foytack 0 on 0 out); Keough (1,6th inning off Foytack 0 on 1 out); Gernert (2,6th inning off Foytack 1 on 2 out); Jensen (6,7th inning off Morgan 1 on 1 out); Geiger 2 (2,7th inning off Susce 1 on 2 out,8th inning off Burnside 1 on 2 out)., Detroit Kaline 2 (5,1st inning off Brewer 1 on 2 out,3rd inning off Brewer 1 on 0 out); Berberet (1,8th inning off Baumann 1 on 1 out)..  Team LOB–7.  Team–8.  U–Joe Paparella, Eddie Hurley, Frank Tabacchi.  T–2:52.  A–4,854.
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