Texas Rangers vs Detroit Tigers
May 5, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 5, 1973 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 0, Detroit Tigers 2

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Harris 3b 4 0 0 0
Harrah ss 4 0 0 0
Johnson lf 4 0 0 0
Epstein 1b 4 0 0 0
Carty dh 4 0 1 0
Burroughs rf 2 0 0 0
Sudakis c 3 0 0 0
Maddox cf 3 0 2 0
Mason 2b 3 0 2 0
Paul p 0 0 0 0
  Gogolewski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 5 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Taylor 2b 4 0 1 0
Rodriguez 3b 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 3 1 1 1
Horton lf 3 0 1 0
Freehan 1b 3 0 1 0
  Reese 1b 1 0 0 0
Howard dh 4 1 1 0
Sims c 2 0 1 0
Stanley cf 4 0 1 1
Brinkman ss 2 0 0 0
Coleman p 0 0 0 0
  Hiller p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 8 2
Texas 000 000 000052
Detroit 000 200 00x280
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Paul  L (3-1) 6.0 7 2 2 2 1
  Gogolewski   2.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
8
2
2
3
3
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Coleman  W (6-1) 7.1 5 0 0 1 3
  Hiller  SV (4) 1.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
1
4

  E–Harris (3), Mason (1).  DP–Texas 3, Detroit 1.  2B–Detroit Stanley (5,off Paul).  3B–Detroit Howard (1,off Paul).  HR–Detroit Kaline (3,4th inning off Paul 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Brinkman (5,off Paul).  HBP–Horton (4,by Paul).  IBB–Kaline (3,by Gogolewski).  SB–Taylor (3,2nd base off Gogolewski/Sudakis).  WP–Paul 2 (2).  HBP–Paul (2,Horton).  IBB–Gogolewski (3,Kaline).  U-HP–Jim Odom, 1B–Art Frantz, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Lou DiMuro.  T–2:26.  A–11,033.
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