Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
September 21, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 21, 1972 at Fenway Park. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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, Boston Red Sox 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 4 1 1 0
Freehan c 5 0 1 0
Brown lf 1 1 0 0
  Kaline ph,rf 4 2 3 0
Horton rf,lf 3 2 1 1
  Northrup lf 1 0 1 1
Cash 1b 5 2 3 2
Stanley cf 4 1 1 1
Rodriguez 3b 5 0 2 1
Brinkman ss 4 1 0 0
Coleman p 4 0 1 3
Totals 40 10 14 9
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Harper cf 4 1 0 0
Aparicio ss 4 0 0 0
Yastrzemski 1b 4 0 1 0
Smith rf 4 1 3 1
Petrocelli 3b 2 1 1 0
Fisk c 2 0 0 0
  Montgomery c 1 0 0 0
Evans lf 4 0 2 2
Griffin 2b 4 0 0 0
Garman p 0 0 0 0
  Curtis p 1 0 0 0
  Oglivie ph 1 0 0 0
  Newhauser p 0 0 0 0
  Cooper ph 1 0 0 0
  Tatum p 0 0 0 0
  Gagliano ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 7 3
Detroit 404 000 10110140
Boston 100 200 000372
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Coleman  W (18-13) 9.0 7 3 3 4 10
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
4
10
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Garman  L (0-1) 0.1 3 3 3 1 0
  Curtis   3.2 5 5 4 3 3
  Newhauser   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Tatum   3.0 6 2 2 0 0
Totals
9.0
14
10
9
4
5

  E–Fisk 2 (12).  2B–Detroit Cash 3 (16,off Garman,off Curtis,off Tatum); Stanley (15,off Tatum); Kaline (9,off Tatum), Boston Yastrzemski (16,off Coleman); Evans (1,off Coleman).  IBB–Stanley (8,by Curtis); Brinkman (9,by Curtis).  IBB–Curtis 2 (6,Stanley,Brinkman).  U-HP–Jim Odom, 1B–Don Denkinger, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–3:01.  A–20,492.
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