Texas Rangers vs Detroit Tigers
July 9, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 9, 1973 at Tiger Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the Detroit Tigers 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 9, Detroit Tigers 7

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Nelson 2b 7 1 1 2
Harris 3b 7 2 5 0
Johnson dh 6 0 2 2
Carty lf 5 0 2 1
  Maddox lf,cf 0 0 0 0
Burroughs rf 5 1 1 0
Billings c 6 0 1 0
Sudakis 1b 3 2 1 2
  Spencer 1b 2 0 1 0
Grieve cf,lf 5 2 3 0
Mackanin ss 4 0 0 0
  Biittner ph 1 0 0 0
  Mason ss 1 1 1 2
Dunning p 0 0 0 0
  Kremmel p 0 0 0 0
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
  Gogolewski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 52 9 18 9
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Northrup rf,lf 6 1 1 1
Stanley cf 6 1 1 0
Brown dh 2 2 1 3
  Howard ph,dh 3 0 0 0
Horton lf 4 1 3 1
  Sharon pr,rf 2 0 1 0
Cash 1b 6 0 2 1
Sims c 6 1 1 0
McAuliffe 2b 4 0 2 1
Rodriguez 3b 5 0 0 0
Brinkman ss 4 1 1 0
Lolich p 0 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
Totals 48 7 13 7
Texas 040 000 210 0029180
Detroit 100 240 000 0007132
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Dunning   4.1 7 7 7 2 0
  Kremmel   3.0 3 0 0 0 2
  Brown   2.2 2 0 0 1 2
  Gogolewski  W (1-3) 2.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
12.0
13
7
7
3
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lolich   6.1 12 6 5 3 4
  Miller  L (2-1) 5.2 6 3 3 1 2
Totals
12.0
18
9
8
4
6

  E–Horton (6), Brinkman (15).  DP–Texas 1, Detroit 2.  2B–Texas Grieve (1,off Lolich); Carty (11,off Miller), Detroit Horton 2 (9,off Dunning,off Kremmel); McAuliffe (14,off Dunning); N Cash (14,off Kremmel).  HR–Texas Sudakis (4,7th inning off Lolich 1 on, 1 out); Mason (2,12th inning off Miller 1 on, 1 out), Detroit Northrup (3,1st inning off Dunning 0 on, 0 out); G Brown (7,5th inning off Dunning 2 on, 1 out); Horton (12,5th inning off Dunning 0 on, 1 out).  CS–Nelson (8,3rd base by Lolich/Sims); Spencer (2,2nd base by Miller/Sims).  U-HP–George Maloney, 1B–Jim Evans, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Russ Goetz.  T–3:29.  A–21,933.
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