Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
August 21, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1959 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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 0, Detroit Tigers 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Keough cf 4 0 1 0
Runnels 2b 1 0 0 0
  Green 2b 2 0 0 0
Stephens lf 4 0 1 0
Wertz 1b 3 0 0 0
Jensen rf 3 0 1 0
Malzone 3b 3 0 0 0
White c 3 0 1 0
Buddin ss 2 0 0 0
  Geiger ph 1 0 0 0
  Mahoney ss 0 0 0 0
Monbouquette p 2 0 0 0
  Williams ph 1 0 0 0
  Chittum p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 4 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 4 0 0 0
Harris 1b 4 0 1 0
Kuenn rf 3 1 3 0
Kaline cf 4 1 1 2
Maxwell lf 2 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 3 0 0 0
Berberet c 3 0 0 0
Bridges ss 3 0 1 0
  Veal ss 0 0 0 0
Foytack p 3 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 6 2
Boston 000 000 000040
Detroit 002 000 00x260
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Monbouquette  L (4-5) 7.0 4 2 2 2 7
  Chittum   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
6
2
2
2
7
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  W (12-10) 9.0 4 0 0 1 8
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
1
8

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 2. Bolling-Bridges-Harris, Yost-Bolling-Harris.  2B–Boston Keough (12,off Foytack), Detroit Kuenn (30,off Monbouquette).  HR–Detroit Kaline (22,3rd inning off Monbouquette 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–3.  Team–5.  CS–Harris (1,2nd base by Chittum/White).  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–1:52.  A–16,781.
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