Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 18, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1961 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."
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Detroit Tigers 0, Boston Red Sox 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Fernandez ss 3 0 0 0
Bruton cf 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 0
Colavito lf 3 0 0 0
Cash 1b 3 0 1 0
Boros 3b 3 0 0 0
Brown c 3 0 1 0
Cottier 2b 2 0 0 0
  Osborne ph 1 0 0 0
  Virgil 2b 0 0 0 0
Bunning p 2 0 0 0
  Maxwell ph 1 0 0 0
  Fox p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 4 0
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Schilling 2b 4 0 0 0
Geiger cf 3 0 1 0
Yastrzemski lf 4 0 0 0
Jensen rf 3 0 2 0
Nixon c 3 0 0 0
Runnels 1b 3 1 1 0
Malzone 3b 3 0 0 0
Buddin ss 2 0 1 1
Conley p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 5 1
Detroit 000 000 000–040
Boston 000 010 00x–150
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning  L (2-4) 7.0 5 1 1 2 5
  Fox   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
5
1
1
2
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Conley  W (2-3) 9.0 4 0 0 2 6
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
2
6
  E–None.  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Boston Jensen 2 (2,off Bunning 2); Buddin (3,off Bunning).  Team–5.  CS–Fernandez (3,2nd base by Conley/Nixon); Jensen (3,3rd base by Bunning/Brown).  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–Harry Schwarts, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–John Rice.  T–2:09.  A–7,726.
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