Texas Rangers vs Detroit Tigers
July 12, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 12, 1972 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Texas Rangers 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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Texas Rangers 1, Detroit Tigers 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Nelson 3b 5 0 2 0
Harrah ss 4 0 0 0
Mincher 1b 2 0 1 0
Billings lf 4 0 0 0
King c 4 0 0 0
Biittner rf 4 1 3 0
Lovitto cf 4 0 1 0
Kubiak 2b 1 0 1 1
  Randle pr,2b 3 0 0 0
Cox p 1 0 0 0
  Jones ph 1 0 0 0
  Panther p 0 0 0 0
  Maddox ph 1 0 0 0
  Gogolewski p 0 0 0 0
  Lindblad p 0 0 0 0
  Ford ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 8 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 4 1 2 1
  Taylor ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Rodriguez 3b 4 1 1 0
Northrup rf 3 0 0 1
Horton lf 4 0 2 0
Cash 1b 4 0 1 0
Stanley cf 3 1 1 0
Haller c 3 0 1 0
Brinkman ss 2 0 0 0
Slayback p 4 0 1 0
Totals 32 3 9 2
Texas 010 000 000182
Detroit 002 100 00x390
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Cox  L (2-1) 4.0 6 3 1 2 1
  Panther   2.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Gogolewski   1.2 1 0 0 2 1
  Lindblad   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
3
1
4
3
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Slayback  W (2-3) 9.0 8 1 1 2 9
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
2
9

  E–King (6), Randle (13).  DP–Texas 1.  2B–Texas Lovitto (7,off Slayback); Biittner (9,off Slayback); Nelson (9,off Slayback), Detroit Rodriguez (12,off Cox); Cash (4,off Gogolewski).  SH–Brinkman (5,off Panther).  IBB–Haller (3,by Gogolewski).  SB–Nelson (24,2nd base off Slayback/Haller).  IBB–Gogolewski (1,Haller).  U-HP–Dave Phillips, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Larry Barnett.  T–2:16.  A–14,767.
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