Los Angeles Angels vs Detroit Tigers
July 9, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 9, 1961 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Los Angeles Angels 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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Los Angeles Angels 0, Detroit Tigers 1

Los Angeles Angels ab   r   h rbi
Pearson cf 4 0 0 0
Koppe ss 4 0 0 0
Wagner rf 4 0 0 0
Kluszewski 1b 4 0 0 0
Thomas lf 4 0 1 0
Averill c 3 0 1 0
Yost 3b 2 0 1 0
  Throneberry ph 1 0 0 0
  Bridges 3b 0 0 0 0
Moran 2b 3 0 0 0
Grba p 1 0 0 0
  Hunt ph 1 0 0 0
  Donohue p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 3 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe ss 4 0 1 0
Bruton cf 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 0
Colavito lf 4 0 1 0
Cash 1b 2 1 1 0
Boros 3b 0 0 0 0
  Virgil pr,3b 3 0 0 0
Wood 2b 3 0 1 0
Roarke c 3 0 1 1
Lary p 3 0 1 0
Totals 30 1 8 1
Los Angeles 000 000 000031
Detroit 010 000 00x180
  Los Angeles Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Grba  L (5-9) 7.0 6 1 1 2 5
  Donohue   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
1
1
2
5
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W (13-4) 9.0 3 0 0 2 10
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
2
10

  E–Grba (1).  DP–Los Angeles 2.  PB–Roarke (2).  2B–Detroit Wood (12,off Grba); McAuliffe (4,off Grba).  HBP–Boros (8,by Grba).  IBB–Cash (13,by Grba).  Team–8.  SB–Cash (6,2nd base off Grba/Averill); Bruton (11,2nd base off Grba/Averill).  HBP–Grba (3,Boros).  IBB–Grba (7,Cash).  U-HP–Frank Umont, 1B–Bob Stewart, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Joe Linsalata.  T–2:29.
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