Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
September 13, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 13, 1971 at Memorial Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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 10, Baltimore Orioles 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 6 0 1 1
Rodriguez 3b 6 2 2 0
Brown lf 5 1 2 2
  Lane lf 0 0 0 0
Cash 1b 5 3 2 0
Freehan c 5 2 3 1
Northrup rf 4 0 0 0
Stanley cf 5 2 2 2
Brinkman ss 5 0 3 2
Niekro p 0 0 0 0
  Scherman p 4 0 1 1
Totals 45 10 16 9
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Buford lf 2 0 2 0
  Motton pr,lf 3 2 2 0
Rettenmund cf 4 0 2 0
Powell 1b 5 1 1 2
Robinson F. rf 4 1 1 2
Hendricks c 2 0 0 0
  Etchebarren ph,c 2 0 0 0
Robinson B. 3b 3 1 1 0
Johnson 2b 4 0 1 1
Belanger ss 4 0 0 0
Dobson p 1 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Salmon ph 1 0 0 0
  Dukes p 0 0 0 0
  Boswell p 1 0 0 0
  Blair ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 5 10 5
Detroit 303 020 02010160
Baltimore 001 000 0135101
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Niekro   0.1 1 0 0 2 0
  Scherman  W (10-6) 8.2 9 5 5 2 3
Totals
9.0
10
5
5
4
3
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Dobson  L (17-8) 2.2 8 6 3 0 4
  Jackson   1.1 1 0 0 0 1
  Dukes   0.2 4 2 2 0 1
  Boswell   4.1 3 2 2 2 4
Totals
9.0
16
10
7
2
10

  E–Johnson (11).  PB–Hendricks (14).  2B–Detroit Cash (10,off Dobson); Brinkman (17,off Dobson); Rodriguez (24,off Boswell), Baltimore Buford 2 (17,off Niekro,off Scherman); Rettenmund (20,off Scherman); B Robinson (19,off Scherman); Motton (1,off Scherman).  HR–Detroit G Brown (10,1st inning off Dobson 1 on, 1 out), Baltimore F Robinson (25,9th inning off Scherman 1 on, 2 out).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Jim Odom, 2B–Marty Springstead, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–3:03.  A–13,292.
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