Detroit Tigers vs Texas Rangers
July 20, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 20, 1972 at Arlington 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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Detroit Tigers 5, Texas Rangers 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 4 1 1 1
Rodriguez 3b 5 1 2 1
Northrup rf 3 0 0 0
Horton lf 4 0 1 1
  Comer pr,lf 0 0 0 1
Cash 1b 3 1 0 0
Freehan c 3 0 0 0
Stanley cf 4 0 1 1
Brinkman ss 4 2 2 0
Slayback p 2 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 7 5
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Nelson 3b 4 0 0 0
Jones 2b 4 0 0 0
Biittner rf 4 0 2 0
Billings lf 4 0 1 0
Howard 1b 4 0 0 0
King c 2 0 0 0
Lovitto cf 2 1 1 0
Randle ss 3 0 0 0
Stanhouse p 1 0 0 0
  Martinez ph 1 0 1 1
  Gogolewski p 0 0 0 0
  Ford ph 1 0 0 0
  Cox p 0 0 0 0
  Dukes p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Detroit 010 010 012571
Texas 000 010 000153
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Slayback  W (4-3) 9.0 5 1 1 2 13
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
2
13
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Stanhouse  L (0-2) 5.0 3 2 2 3 2
  Gogolewski   3.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Cox   0.1 2 2 2 1 0
  Dukes   0.2 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
6
3

  E–Slayback (2), Randle 3 (19).  DP–Detroit 2.  2B–Detroit Rodriguez (16,off Gogolewski); Horton (8,off Gogolewski).  SH–Slayback 2 (2,off Stanhouse,off Cox).  SF–Comer (1,off Dukes).  IBB–Cash (5,by Gogolewski); McAuliffe (3,by Cox).  SB–Nelson (26,2nd base off Slayback/Freehan); Lovitto (6,2nd base off Slayback/Freehan).  CS–Lovitto (4,2nd base by Slayback/Freehan).  WP–Slayback (1), Stanhouse (2), Dukes (1).  IBB–Gogolewski (3,Cash); Cox (3,McAuliffe).  U-HP–Dave Phillips, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Larry Barnett.
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