Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
June 20, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 20, 1971 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 6, Cleveland Indians 7

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Rodriguez 3b 4 2 2 1
Northrup rf,1b 5 2 2 3
Horton lf 5 0 2 0
Cash 1b 3 0 1 0
  Kaline ph,rf 2 0 0 0
McAuliffe 2b 3 0 0 0
  Brown I. ph 0 0 0 1
  Taylor 2b 1 0 0 0
Freehan c 2 0 0 0
  Jones ph 1 0 0 0
  Price c 0 0 0 0
Stanley cf 4 0 0 0
Brinkman ss 5 0 0 0
Lolich p 2 1 0 0
  Brown G. ph 1 1 1 1
  Scherman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 8 6
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Nettles 3b 5 1 1 0
Leon 2b 3 1 0 0
Foster rf 4 2 2 4
Chambliss 1b 4 0 0 0
  Colbert p 0 0 0 0
Harrelson lf 3 0 0 0
  Uhlaender pr,lf 1 0 0 0
Ford cf 4 2 1 0
  Pinson cf 1 0 1 0
Heidemann ss 5 0 2 2
Suarez c 4 0 1 0
Dunning p 3 0 0 0
  Mingori p 0 0 0 0
  Hennigan p 0 0 0 0
  Austin p 0 0 0 0
  Hinton ph,1b 1 1 1 1
Totals 38 7 9 7
Detroit 103 000 011 00681
Cleveland 400 001 010 01790
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lolich   8.0 7 6 5 3 11
  Scherman  L (5-1) 2.0 2 1 1 3 0
Totals
10.0
9
7
6
6
11
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Dunning   7.0 6 5 5 2 3
  Mingori   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Hennigan   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Austin   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Colbert  W (2-1) 2.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
11.0
8
6
6
2
4

  E–Rodriguez (12).  DP–Detroit 1, Cleveland 1.  PB–Price (2).  2B–Detroit Northrup (16,off Dunning), Cleveland Heidemann (3,off Lolich); Pinson (10,off Scherman).  HR–Detroit Rodriguez (7,1st inning off Dunning 0 on, 0 out); Northrup (5,3rd inning off Dunning 2 on, 1 out); G Brown (1,9th inning off Austin 0 on, 2 out), Cleveland R Foster 2 (7,1st inning off Lolich 2 on, 0 out,8th inning off Lolich 0 on, 0 out); Hinton (2,11th inning off Scherman 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Stanley (2,off Colbert).  SF–I Brown (2,off Mingori).  HBP–Lolich (1,by Dunning); Price (1,by Colbert); Chambliss (1,by Lolich).  CS–Heidemann (2,2nd base by Lolich/Freehan).  HBP–Lolich (4,Chambliss); Dunning (2,Lolich); Colbert (3,Price).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Jim Odom, 2B–Marty Springstead, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–3:15.
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