Oakland Athletics vs Detroit Tigers
April 29, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 29, 1968 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Oakland Athletics 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Oakland Athletics 1, Detroit Tigers 2

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 3 0 0 0
Jackson rf 4 0 1 0
Bando 3b 4 0 1 0
Webster 1b 4 1 0 0
Cater lf 4 0 1 1
Lachemann c 4 0 0 0
Hershberger cf 2 0 0 0
  Monday cf 0 0 0 0
Green 2b 2 0 0 0
Dobson p 2 0 1 0
  Pierce p 0 0 0 0
  Aker p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 4 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 4 0 1 0
Stanley cf 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 0
Freehan c 3 0 0 0
Cash 1b 4 1 0 0
Northrup lf 3 0 0 0
Wert 3b 4 1 3 1
Oyler ss 3 0 1 0
Lolich p 2 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 6 1
Oakland 000 000 001141
Detroit 000 000 011260
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Dobson   7.1 5 1 1 0 3
  Pierce   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Aker  L (1-1) 1.0 1 1 0 1 0
Totals
8.2
6
2
1
1
3
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lolich  W (1-0) 9.0 4 1 1 3 3
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
3
3

  E–Lachemann (1).  DP–Detroit 1.  2B–Oakland Bando (4,off Lolich).  HR–Detroit Wert (1,8th inning off Dobson 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Dobson (1,off Lolich); Lolich (1,off Dobson).  HBP–Freehan (3,by Aker).  HBP–Aker (1,Freehan).  U-HP–Bill Haller, 1B–Jerry Neudecker, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Al Salerno.  T–2:30.  A–9,125.
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