Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
August 8, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 8, 1970 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."

"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 6, Boston Red Sox 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b,ss 4 2 3 3
Stanley cf 4 1 1 3
Kaline rf 5 0 0 0
Northrup lf 4 0 2 0
Cash 1b 4 0 1 0
Freehan c 3 0 0 0
Wert 3b 4 1 1 0
Gutierrez ss 2 0 0 0
  Jones ph,2b 1 1 0 0
McLain p 2 0 0 0
  Brown ph 0 1 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Nagelson ph 1 0 0 0
  Timmermann p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 8 6
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Andrews 2b 4 0 1 0
Smith cf 4 0 0 0
  Thomas ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Yastrzemski 1b 4 2 2 1
Conigliaro T. rf 5 0 1 0
Petrocelli ss 5 1 3 1
Conigliaro B. lf,cf 4 1 2 0
Kennedy 3b 4 1 2 1
Satriano c 4 0 1 1
Romo p 2 0 0 1
  Hartenstein p 1 0 0 0
  Wagner p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 12 5
Detroit 001 020 102681
Boston 031 000 1005120
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
McLain   6.0 9 4 4 2 2
  Patterson  W (3-1) 2.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Timmermann  SV (19) 1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
12
5
5
3
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Romo   6.1 6 4 4 4 5
  Hartenstein  L (0-1) 2.0 2 2 2 1 1
  Wagner   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
6
6
5
7

  E–Wert (11).  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Detroit Wert (11,off Romo); McAuliffe 2 (17,off Romo 2); Northrup (12,off Romo); Cash (12,off Hartenstein), Boston Kennedy (5,off McLain).  HR–Detroit Stanley (11,5th inning off Romo 1 on, 2 out); McAuliffe (10,9th inning off Hartenstein 1 on, 1 out), Boston Yastrzemski (30,7th inning off Patterson 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Romo (1,off McLain).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Bill Kunkel, 2B–Bill Haller, 3B–Jim Odom.  T–2:35.  A–32,551.
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