Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 18, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1959 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."

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Detroit Tigers 14, Boston Red Sox 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 4 2 3 2
Groth rf 5 0 2 0
Maxwell lf 5 2 1 3
Kaline cf 5 1 2 3
Harris 1b 4 0 0 0
Bridges ss 6 0 1 0
Berberet c 3 2 0 0
Bolling 2b 4 5 3 1
Bunning p 4 2 4 5
Totals 40 14 16 14
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Keough cf 0 0 0 0
  Geiger ph,cf 4 0 0 0
Runnels 2b 4 1 1 0
Williams lf 4 0 2 0
  Renna pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Malzone 3b 4 0 2 1
Jensen rf 4 0 0 0
Gernert 1b 3 0 1 0
Daley c 4 0 0 0
Buddin ss 3 1 1 1
Sullivan p 0 0 0 0
  Baumann p 2 0 0 0
  Fornieles p 0 0 0 0
  Busby ph 1 0 0 0
  Bowsfield p 0 0 0 0
  Consolo ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 7 2
Detroit 213 011 42014160
Boston 100 000 100270
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning  W (4-3) 9.0 7 2 2 5 5
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
5
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sullivan  L (1-3) 1.1 5 3 3 2 1
  Baumann   4.2 7 7 7 4 3
  Fornieles   1.0 1 2 2 1 0
  Bowsfield   2.0 3 2 2 1 0
Totals
9.0
16
14
14
8
4

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Bolling-Bridges-Harris, Boston 1. Runnels-Gernert-Buddin-Gernert.  2B–Detroit Yost 2 (7,off F. Sullivan 2); Kaline (6,off F. Sullivan); Groth (3,off Baumann); Bridges (3,off Baumann), Boston Runnels (10,off Bunning); Williams (1,off Bunning).  3B–Detroit Bunning (1,off Baumann).  HR–Detroit Bunning (1,3rd inning off Baumann 2 on 2 out); Kaline (8,6th inning off Baumann 0 on 1 out); Bolling (2,7th inning off Baumann 0 on 0 out); Maxwell (7,7th inning off Fornieles 2 on 1 out), Boston Buddin (3,7th inning off Bunning 0 on 0 out).  SH–Bunning (3,off F. Sullivan); Groth (1,off Fornieles).  HBP–Yost (1,by Fornieles).  Team LOB–10.  Team–9.  U-HP–Frank Tabacchi, 1B–Joe Paparella, 2B–Ed Runge, 3B–Eddie Hurley.  T–2:39.  A–3,028.
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