Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox
May 5, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 5, 1961 at Comiskey Park I. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago White Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 8, Chicago White Sox 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Wood 2b 5 1 2 1
Bruton cf 5 2 1 0
Kaline rf 4 2 2 1
Colavito lf 4 1 2 0
Cash 1b 4 1 2 3
Boros 3b 5 0 2 1
Brown c 5 0 1 2
Fernandez ss 5 1 3 0
Foytack p 2 0 0 0
  Donohue p 0 0 0 0
  Aguirre p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 8 15 8
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Aparicio ss 5 0 0 0
Fox 2b 5 1 1 0
Landis cf 5 1 1 0
Minoso lf 4 1 1 0
Sievers 1b 3 1 2 2
Robinson rf 4 0 1 2
Lollar c 4 0 1 0
Goodman 3b 3 0 1 0
Shaw p 0 0 0 0
  Kemmerer p 0 0 0 0
  Ginsberg ph 1 0 0 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
  Torgeson ph 0 0 0 0
  Staley p 0 0 0 0
  Martin ph 1 0 0 0
  Pizarro p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 8 4
Detroit 420 001 1008150
Chicago 000 200 020481
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  W (1-1) 7.2 8 4 4 2 0
  Donohue   0.1 0 0 0 2 0
  Aguirre  SV (3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
4
0
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Shaw  L (2-1) 1.2 7 6 3 1 2
  Kemmerer   1.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Lown   2.0 3 0 0 0 2
  Staley   2.0 4 2 2 1 1
  Pizarro   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
15
8
5
2
7

  E–Minoso (3).  DP–Chicago 1.  2B–Detroit Brown (2,off Shaw); Colavito (3,off Lown); Fernandez (3,off Staley), Chicago Goodman (2,off Foytack); Robinson (2,off Foytack).  HR–Chicago Sievers (4,4th inning off Foytack 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Foytack 2 (2,off Kemmerer,off Staley).  SF–Kaline (2,off Shaw).  IBB–Cash (3,by Staley).  Team LOB–9.  Team–8.  SB–Kaline (3,2nd base off Shaw/Lollar).  IBB–Staley (1,Cash).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Sam Carrigan, 2B–Cal Drummond, 3B–Joe Paparella.  T–2:50.  A–14,602.
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