Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
September 25, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 25, 1968 at Memorial Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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 4, Baltimore Orioles 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 4 0 0 0
Stanley ss 4 0 2 0
Northrup cf 4 1 2 0
Kaline rf 3 1 0 0
Cash 1b 4 1 0 0
Brown lf 3 1 1 3
  Comer lf 0 0 0 0
Freehan c 3 0 2 1
Wert 3b 3 0 0 0
Wilson p 1 0 0 0
  Matchick ph 0 0 0 0
  McMahon p 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 7 4
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Buford 2b 4 0 0 0
Fiore 1b 3 1 0 0
Robinson 3b 4 0 0 0
Hendricks c 4 1 1 0
Rettenmund cf 1 0 0 0
Motton lf 4 0 1 1
May rf 3 1 2 0
Floyd ss 3 0 0 0
  Powell ph 1 0 0 0
Phoebus p 3 0 1 1
  Watt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 5 2
Detroit 000 010 003470
Baltimore 000 200 100351
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Wilson   7.0 5 3 3 4 7
  McMahon  W (5-1) 2.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
5
3
3
5
8
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Phoebus  L (15-15) 8.1 7 4 3 4 6
  Watt   0.2 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
7
4
3
5
6

  E–Buford (8).  DP–Detroit 1, Baltimore 4.  PB–Freehan (10).  2B–Detroit Northrup (28,off Phoebus), Baltimore Motton (7,off Wilson); May (6,off Wilson).  HR–Detroit Brown (6,9th inning off Phoebus 2 on, 1 out).  HBP–Freehan (24,by Phoebus).  IBB–May (3,by Wilson).  SB–Kaline (6,2nd base off Phoebus/Hendricks).  CS–Rettenmund (1,2nd base by McMahon/Freehan).  HBP–Phoebus (4,Freehan).  IBB–Wilson (4,May).  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Bob Stewart, 2B–Lou DiMuro, 3B–Marty Springstead.  T–2:35.  A–6,344.
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