Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 17, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1959 at Fenway Park. 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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Detroit Tigers 1, Boston Red Sox 10

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 2 1 1 0
Osborne 1b 5 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 3 0 1 0
Kaline cf 4 0 0 1
Kuenn rf 3 0 1 0
  Groth pr,rf 1 0 0 0
Berberet c 4 0 0 0
Bridges ss 3 0 1 0
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Foytack p 0 0 0 0
  Lepcio ph 1 0 0 0
  Davie p 1 0 1 0
  Zernial ph 1 0 0 0
  Sisler p 0 0 0 0
  Harris ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 6 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Keough cf 5 2 1 3
Runnels 2b 4 1 2 3
Williams lf 2 0 0 1
  Geiger lf 0 0 0 0
Malzone 3b 4 0 0 0
Jensen rf 3 2 0 0
Gernert 1b 4 3 4 1
Daley c 4 1 1 1
Buddin ss 5 1 2 1
Delock p 4 0 1 0
Totals 35 10 11 10
Detroit 001 000 000161
Boston 061 012 00x10110
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  L (1-5) 2.0 4 6 4 2 2
  Davie   3.0 4 2 2 5 4
  Sisler   3.0 3 2 2 4 0
Totals
8.0
11
10
8
11
6
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Delock  W (4-1) 9.0 6 1 1 7 2
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
7
2

  E–Bolling (6).  2B–Boston Runnels (9,off Foytack); Daley (3,off Sisler).  3B–Boston Runnels (4,off Foytack).  HR–Boston Gernert (4,3rd inning off Davie 0 on 1 out); Keough (2,5th inning off Davie 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–12.  SF–Williams (1,off Foytack).  IBB–Gernert (1,by Davie).  Team–13.  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Frank Tabacchi, 2B–Joe Paparella, 3B–Ed Runge.  T–2:42.  A–17,180.
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