Detroit Tigers vs Oakland Athletics
April 24, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 24, 1971 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Detroit Tigers 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, Oakland Athletics 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Rodriguez 3b 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Northrup cf 4 0 1 0
Horton lf 4 0 0 0
Cash 1b 3 2 1 1
McAuliffe 2b 4 2 2 0
Price c 3 0 0 1
  Brown ph 1 0 0 0
Brinkman ss 3 0 0 1
Coleman p 2 0 0 0
  Timmermann p 0 0 0 0
  Scherman p 0 0 0 0
  Jones ph 1 0 1 1
  Niekro p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 5 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Campaneris ss 4 0 0 0
Rudi lf 5 0 1 0
Jackson rf 5 0 2 1
Mincher 1b 4 0 2 0
Bando 3b 3 1 0 0
Monday cf 2 1 0 0
Duncan c 2 1 1 0
Green 2b 2 1 1 4
Hunter p 4 1 3 0
Totals 31 5 10 5
Detroit 020 100 100450
Oakland 000 005 00x5101
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Coleman   5.0 5 2 2 5 4
  Timmermann  L (3-1) 0.2 3 3 3 1 0
  Scherman   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Niekro   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
7
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Hunter  W (2-2) 9.0 5 4 3 1 9
Totals
9.0
5
4
3
1
9

  E–Campaneris (6).  2B–Detroit Northrup (6,off Hunter); McAuliffe (3,off Hunter), Oakland Duncan (2,off Coleman).  HR–Detroit Cash (3,4th inning off Hunter 0 on, 0 out), Oakland Green (4,6th inning off Timmermann 3 on, 0 out).  SH–Campaneris (1,off Timmermann); Duncan (1,off Niekro).  WP–Coleman (1).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Jerry Neudecker, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Russ Goetz.  T–2:32.  A–7,815.
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