Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
June 20, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 20, 1968 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 1, Detroit Tigers 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Andrews 2b 3 0 0 0
Lahoud rf 3 0 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 4 0 0 0
Harrelson 1b 4 0 0 0
Smith cf 4 0 1 0
Petrocelli ss 3 1 0 0
Scott 3b 4 0 1 0
Howard c 3 0 1 1
Ellsworth p 1 0 0 0
  Waslewski p 1 0 0 0
  Jones ph 1 0 0 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 3 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 4 1 1 0
Stanley cf 4 1 3 4
Northrup rf 4 0 0 0
Freehan 1b 4 0 0 0
Horton lf 4 0 1 0
  Comer pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Wert 3b 3 0 1 0
Price c 4 0 0 0
Oyler ss 1 2 0 0
McLain p 1 1 1 0
Totals 29 5 7 4
Boston 000 000 100132
Detroit 001 030 10x571
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ellsworth  L (5-5) 3.2 2 1 1 1 2
  Waslewski   2.1 2 3 2 1 1
  Lyle   2.0 3 1 1 1 1
Totals
8.0
7
5
4
3
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
McLain  W (12-2) 9.0 3 1 1 2 10
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
2
10

  E–Yastrzemski (1), Harrelson (1), McAuliffe (5).  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Detroit Stanley (8,off Lyle).  HR–Detroit Stanley (5,5th inning off Waslewski 2 on, 1 out).  HBP–Andrews (2,by McLain).  SH–McLain 2 (7,off Ellsworth,off Lyle).  HBP–McLain (3,Andrews).  U-HP–Jim Honochick, 1B–Al Salerno, 2B–Emmett Ashford, 3B–Bill Valentine.  T–2:22.  A–30,977.
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