Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
August 8, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 8, 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 3, Boston Red Sox 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 2 1 1 1
Maxwell lf 5 0 2 1
Kuenn rf 6 1 3 0
Kaline cf 6 0 2 0
Wilson c 4 0 0 0
Zernial 1b 3 0 1 0
  Osborne pr,1b 1 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 3 1 2 1
Veal ss 3 0 0 0
Lary p 5 0 0 0
  Burnside p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 3 11 3
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Green 2b 5 0 1 2
Runnels 1b,ss 5 0 1 0
Geiger cf 5 1 2 1
Stephens lf 3 0 1 0
Jensen rf 4 0 0 0
Malzone 3b 4 0 1 0
Buddin ss 0 0 0 0
  Williams ph 1 0 0 0
  Mahoney ss 0 0 0 0
  Wertz ph,1b 2 1 1 0
White c 3 1 2 0
Schroll p 1 0 0 0
  Keough ph 1 0 0 0
  Chittum p 0 0 0 0
  Gernert ph 1 0 1 1
  Busby pr 0 1 0 0
  Delock p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 10 4
Detroit 000 200 100 03110
Boston 000 000 003 14100
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary   8.2 9 3 3 2 4
  Burnside  L (0-1) 0.1 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
2
4
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Schroll   7.0 9 3 3 7 5
  Chittum   2.0 2 0 0 1 2
  Delock  W (9-6) 1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
10.0
11
3
3
9
7

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Veal-Bolling-Zernial, Boston 1. Buddin-Runnels.  2B–Detroit Maxwell (10,off Schroll); Bolling (9,off Schroll), Boston Runnels (26,off Lary); Gernert (14,off Lary).  HR–Boston Geiger (8,10th inning off Burnside 0 on 0 out).  SH–Veal (4,off Schroll); Maxwell (4,off Delock).  IBB–Veal (1,by Schroll).  Team LOB–16.  HBP–Stephens (3,by Lary); White (1,by Lary).  Team–8.  SB–Schroll (1,2nd base off Lary/Wilson); Green (3,2nd base off Burnside/Wilson).  CS–White (1,2nd base by Lary/Wilson).  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–3:12.  A–13,930.
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