Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
September 18, 1974 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 18, 1974 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 5, Boston Red Sox 8

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 1 1 0
Sutherland 2b 5 2 1 0
Kaline dh 5 1 3 2
Oglivie lf 5 0 1 1
Freehan c 4 0 1 1
Sanders 1b 4 0 2 0
Nettles rf 4 1 3 0
Rodriguez 3b 4 0 1 1
Brinkman ss 3 0 1 0
  Brown ph 1 0 0 0
LaGrow p 0 0 0 0
  Walker p 0 0 0 0
  Holdsworth p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 5 14 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Harper lf 3 0 1 0
  Miller lf 0 0 0 0
Cooper dh 2 0 1 1
  Rice ph,dh 3 0 2 0
Yastrzemski 1b 4 2 1 0
Carbo rf 1 0 0 0
  Evans ph,rf 2 1 0 0
Lynn cf 5 1 4 3
McAuliffe 3b 4 2 1 2
Griffin 2b 4 1 1 0
Burleson ss 4 1 3 1
Blackwell c 4 0 0 0
Marichal p 0 0 0 0
  Cleveland p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 8 14 7
Detroit 111 000 0025141
Boston 121 202 00x8141
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
LaGrow  L (8-17) 2.2 8 4 3 2 1
  Walker   3.1 5 4 4 3 3
  Holdsworth   2.0 1 0 0 2 1
Totals
8.0
14
8
7
7
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Marichal   2.1 7 3 2 0 1
  Cleveland  W (11-13) 6.2 7 2 2 1 3
Totals
9.0
14
5
4
1
4

  E–LaGrow (4), McAuliffe (10).  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Detroit Rodriguez (22,off Marichal); Kaline (27,off Cleveland), Boston Lynn (2,off Walker); Burleson (21,off Walker).  3B–Boston Lynn (1,off LaGrow).  HR–Detroit Kaline (13,9th inning off Cleveland 1 on, 2 out), Boston McAuliffe (5,6th inning off Walker 1 on, 2 out).  CS–LeFlore (6,2nd base by Cleveland/Blackwell); Griffin (8,2nd base by Walker/Freehan).  U-HP–Art Frantz, 1B–Ron Luciano, 2B–George Maloney, 3B–Jerry Neudecker.  T–2:32.  A–12,213.
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