Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
July 23, 1966 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 23, 1966 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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 5, Cleveland Indians 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Wert 3b 4 1 1 0
Wood 2b 4 1 2 1
Northrup rf 4 1 1 0
Horton lf 4 1 1 1
Cash 1b 4 1 2 1
Freehan c 3 0 1 0
Stanley cf 3 0 0 1
Oyler ss 3 0 0 0
  Lumpe ph 1 0 0 0
Sparma p 1 0 0 0
  Wickersham p 2 0 0 0
  Aguirre p 0 0 0 0
  Gladding p 0 0 0 0
  Brown ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 8 4
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Brown ss 4 1 2 1
Wagner lf 3 0 1 1
Hinton cf 4 1 1 1
Whitfield 1b 3 1 1 2
Colavito rf 4 1 1 1
Salmon 2b 3 0 1 0
Alvis 3b 4 1 1 0
Booker c 2 0 0 0
  Davalillo ph 0 0 0 0
  Azcue c 1 0 0 0
O'Donoghue p 2 1 1 0
  Gentile ph 1 0 0 0
  Tiant p 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 9 6
Detroit 410 000 000581
Cleveland 002 002 20x691
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sparma   2.1 3 2 2 3 3
  Wickersham   3.0 3 2 2 2 0
  Aguirre  L (2-7) 1.0 3 2 1 0 2
  Gladding   1.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
6
5
5
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
O'Donoghue   6.0 7 5 4 3 1
  Tiant  W (6-5) 3.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
5
4
3
1

  E–Oyler (6), Brown (10).  DP–Detroit 2, Cleveland 1.  2B–Cleveland Salmon (8,off Aguirre).  HR–Cleveland Colavito (20,6th inning off Wickersham 0 on, 0 out); Whitfield (16,7th inning off Aguirre 1 on, 0 out).  U-HP–Jim Odom, 1B–Al Salerno, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–John Rice.  T–2:46.  A–14,120.
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