Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
August 2, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 2, 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 5, Detroit Tigers 4

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Green 2b 4 0 1 0
Runnels 1b 4 0 0 0
Geiger cf 4 1 1 0
Williams lf 2 0 0 0
  Busby pr,lf 0 1 0 0
Jensen rf 4 2 2 3
Malzone 3b 4 1 1 2
White c 4 0 1 0
Buddin ss 2 0 1 0
  Wertz ph 1 0 0 0
  Mahoney ss 1 0 0 0
Monbouquette p 2 0 0 0
  Stephens ph 1 0 0 0
  Delock p 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 7 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 3 1 1 0
Chrisley rf 4 0 0 0
Maxwell lf 3 2 1 2
Kaline cf 3 0 0 0
Wilson c 2 1 0 0
Harris 1b 3 0 1 0
Bolling 2b 3 0 1 1
Veal ss 3 0 0 1
  Demeter ph 1 0 0 0
Foytack p 3 0 0 0
  Bunning p 0 0 0 0
  Osborne ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 4 4
Boston 000 200 030571
Detroit 012 001 000441
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Monbouquette   6.0 3 4 4 5 3
  Delock  W (7-6) 3.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
4
4
5
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  L (9-10) 8.0 7 5 5 2 4
  Bunning   1.0 0 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
2
7

  E–Mahoney (1), Veal (4).  DP–Boston 1. Green-Runnels.  2B–Detroit Bolling (7,off Monbouquette).  HR–Boston Malzone (15,4th inning off Foytack 1 on 2 out); Jensen (23,8th inning off Foytack 2 on 2 out), Detroit Maxwell (23,3rd inning off Monbouquette 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Wilson (3,off Monbouquette).  SF–Bolling (1,off Monbouquette).  HBP–Yost (7,by Monbouquette).  IBB–Harris (3,by Monbouquette).  Team–6.  CS–Malzone (1,2nd base by Foytack/Wilson).  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:26.  A–16,722.
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