Oakland Athletics vs Detroit Tigers
May 26, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 26, 1973 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Oakland Athletics 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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Oakland Athletics 5, Detroit Tigers 8

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
North cf 5 0 1 1
Kubiak ss 5 0 1 0
Bando 3b 5 0 1 1
Jackson rf 5 1 2 0
Johnson dh 4 1 1 2
Fosse c 4 0 0 0
Tenace 1b 4 1 2 1
McKinney lf 4 1 1 0
Green 2b 3 1 3 0
Holtzman p 0 0 0 0
  Pina p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 5 12 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Taylor 2b 4 1 0 0
Stanley cf 4 0 0 0
Freehan c 4 0 2 2
Howard dh 4 0 0 0
Brown 1b 1 1 0 0
  Reese 1b 0 1 0 0
Sharon lf 3 1 0 0
Northrup rf 4 2 3 2
Rodriguez 3b 3 1 1 2
Brinkman ss 4 1 2 1
Fryman p 0 0 0 0
  Timmermann p 0 0 0 0
  Seelbach p 0 0 0 0
  Hiller p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 8 8 7
Oakland 000 030 0205122
Detroit 000 032 03x880
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Holtzman   5.2 6 5 5 3 5
  Pina  L (4-2) 2.1 2 3 2 1 1
Totals
8.0
8
8
7
4
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Fryman   5.0 7 3 3 0 3
  Timmermann   2.0 4 2 2 0 1
  Seelbach  W (1-0) 1.2 1 0 0 1 1
  Hiller  SV (8) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
5
5
1
5

  E–Tenace 2 (6).  2B–Oakland Green 2 (6,off Fryman,off Timmermann), Detroit Brinkman (6,off Pina).  3B–Detroit Northrup (2,off Pina).  HR–Oakland Tenace (9,5th inning off Fryman 0 on, 0 out); Johnson (6,8th inning off Timmermann 1 on, 0 out), Detroit Rodriguez (3,6th inning off Holtzman 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Sharon (1,off Pina).  SF–Rodriguez (1,off Pina).  CS–Northrup (1,2nd base by Holtzman/Fosse).  WP–Holtzman (6).  U-HP–Hank Morgenweck, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Jerry Neudecker, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–2:34.  A–21,179.
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