Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
April 8, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 8, 1969 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 2, Detroit Tigers 6

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Cardenal cf 4 0 0 0
Brown ss 4 1 1 1
Scheinblum rf 4 0 0 0
Horton 1b 3 0 0 0
Hall lf 2 1 0 0
Azcue c 3 0 1 0
Versalles 3b 2 0 1 1
Fuller 2b 3 0 0 0
Tiant p 2 0 0 0
  Hamilton p 0 0 0 0
  Snyder ph 1 0 0 0
  Pina p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 3 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 3 2 1 0
Stanley ss 5 1 2 0
  Tracewski ss 0 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 2 2 2
Cash 1b 3 0 2 2
Horton lf 5 0 1 0
Northrup cf 4 0 0 0
Freehan c 3 1 1 0
Wert 3b 3 0 1 1
McLain p 4 0 1 1
Totals 34 6 11 6
Cleveland 110 000 000230
Detroit 002 021 10x6111
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Tiant  L (0-1) 5.0 8 5 5 4 6
  Hamilton   2.0 3 1 1 1 1
  Pina   1.0 0 0 0 2 1
Totals
8.0
11
6
6
7
8
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
McLain  W (1-0) 9.0 3 2 2 1 5
Totals
9.0
3
2
2
1
5

  E–Northrup (1).  DP–Cleveland 1, Detroit 1.  2B–Detroit McAuliffe (1,off Tiant); Stanley (1,off Tiant); Cash (1,off Tiant).  HR–Cleveland Brown (1,1st inning off McLain 0 on, 1 out), Detroit Kaline (1,5th inning off Tiant 1 on, 1 out).  SF–Versalles (1,off McLain).  SB–Hall (1,2nd base off McLain/Freehan).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Russ Goetz, 3B–Bill Kunkel.  T–2:19.  A–53,572.
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