Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
August 17, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 17, 1968 at Fenway Park. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 10, Boston Red Sox 9

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 6 1 1 2
Stanley cf 5 3 3 1
Kaline rf 4 2 1 0
Cash 1b 6 1 5 5
Horton lf 6 0 2 1
Freehan c 5 1 1 1
Matchick ss 5 0 0 0
  Oyler ss 1 0 0 0
Wert 3b 5 1 1 0
Dobson p 3 1 1 0
  Lasher p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Hiller p 0 0 0 0
  Brown ph 0 0 0 0
  McMahon p 1 0 0 0
  Warden p 0 0 0 0
  Wyatt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 47 10 15 10
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Andrews 2b 5 2 3 3
Jones 1b 5 1 2 2
  Adair ph 1 0 0 0
Yastrzemski lf 6 0 1 0
Harrelson rf 6 2 3 2
Petrocelli ss 6 1 3 0
Smith cf 4 1 0 0
Foy 3b 5 0 0 0
Nixon c 5 1 1 2
Culp p 1 0 0 0
  Stephenson p 0 0 0 0
  Robinson ph 0 0 0 0
  Landis p 0 0 0 0
  Tartabull ph 0 1 0 0
  Waslewski p 0 0 0 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
  Scott ph 0 0 0 0
  Stange p 1 0 0 0
Totals 45 9 13 9
Detroit 202 202 010 0110151
Boston 100 007 001 009131
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Dobson   5.1 6 5 5 2 4
  Lasher   0.1 1 2 2 1 1
  Patterson   0.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Hiller   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  McMahon  W (4-1) 4.0 2 1 1 1 3
  Warden   0.2 2 0 0 0 0
  Wyatt  SV (2) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
11.0
13
9
9
4
8
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Culp   3.1 7 6 6 1 2
  Stephenson   1.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Landis   1.0 3 2 2 0 1
  Waslewski   0.2 0 0 0 2 0
  Lyle   1.1 2 1 0 0 1
  Stange  L (4-5) 3.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
11.0
15
10
9
3
4

  E–Wert (13), Lyle (3).  DP–Detroit 1, Boston 1.  2B–Detroit Wert (12,off Landis), Boston Jones (9,off Patterson).  3B–Boston Petrocelli (2,off McMahon).  HR–Detroit Cash (19,1st inning off Culp 1 on, 2 out); McAuliffe (15,4th inning off Culp 1 on, 1 out); Freehan (19,11th inning off Stange 0 on, 2 out), Boston Andrews (5,1st inning off Dobson 0 on, 0 out); Harrelson (32,9th inning off McMahon 0 on, 1 out).  HBP–Stanley (3,by Culp); Kaline (3,by Landis).  SH–Andrews (8,off McMahon).  HBP–Culp (8,Stanley); Landis (2,Kaline).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Cal Drummond, 3B–Jim Odom.  T–3:53.  A–28,778.
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