Detroit Tigers vs New York Yankees
June 18, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 18, 1969 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 2, New York Yankees 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 3 2 1 0
Tresh ss 2 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 1
Cash 1b 3 0 2 1
  Freehan ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Northrup cf 2 0 0 0
  Stanley ph 1 0 0 0
Horton lf 4 0 1 0
Matchick 3b 3 0 0 0
  Brown ph 1 0 0 0
Price c 2 0 0 0
  Tracewski pr 0 0 0 0
Sparma p 3 0 0 0
  Dobson p 0 0 0 0
  Kilkenny p 0 0 0 0
  Timmermann p 0 0 0 0
  Wert ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 5 2
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Clarke 2b 2 1 2 0
Kenney 3b 3 0 1 2
Murcer rf 4 0 1 1
Pepitone 1b 3 0 1 0
White lf 3 0 1 0
Lyttle cf 3 0 0 0
  Robinson ph,cf 1 0 0 0
Michael ss 3 1 0 0
Gibbs c 3 1 0 0
Burbach p 1 1 0 0
  Woods ph 0 0 0 0
  Hall ph 1 0 0 0
  Hamilton p 1 0 0 0
Totals 28 4 6 3
Detroit 100 010 000250
New York 000 010 30x460
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sparma  L (4-2) 6.0 5 3 3 4 2
  Dobson   0.2 0 1 1 1 0
  Kilkenny   0.0 1 0 0 2 0
  Timmermann   1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
6
4
4
7
3
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Burbach  W (4-4) 7.0 4 2 1 5 7
  Hamilton  SV (1) 2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
5
2
1
6
7

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1, New York 2.  PB–Gibbs (3).  2B–Detroit Horton (7,off Hamilton), New York Murcer (12,off Kilkenny).  SF–Kenney (2,off Dobson).  SB–White (8,2nd base off Sparma/Price); Clarke (14,2nd base off Sparma/Price).  WP–Dobson (1).  U-HP–Ron Luciano, 1B–Bill Haller, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:52.  A–9,739.
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