Toronto Blue Jays vs Detroit Tigers
April 9, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 9, 1978 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 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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Toronto Blue Jays 4, Detroit Tigers 8

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Bosetti cf 4 1 1 0
Woods lf 3 1 0 0
Howell 3b 4 2 2 1
Carty dh 4 0 1 2
Mayberry 1b 1 0 0 0
  Upshaw rf 2 0 1 0
Hutton rf,1b 4 0 2 0
Iorg 2b 3 0 1 0
Gomez ss 3 0 0 0
  Velez ph 1 0 0 0
Ashby c 4 0 0 0
Underwood p 0 0 0 0
  Clancy p 0 0 0 0
  Murphy p 0 0 0 0
  Willis p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 8 3
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 1 2 1
Dillard 2b 0 0 0 0
  Whitaker ph,2b 4 1 1 1
Staub dh 5 1 2 2
Thompson 1b 5 0 0 0
Kemp lf 3 1 2 1
Spikes rf 5 1 2 1
Parrish c 4 1 1 1
Rodriguez 3b 1 1 1 0
  Mankowski ph,3b 2 0 0 0
Wagner ss 2 1 0 1
  Corcoran ph 0 0 0 0
  Trammell ss 0 0 0 0
Billingham p 0 0 0 0
  Foucault p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 8 11 8
Toronto 300 001 000481
Detroit 070 000 01x8110
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Underwood  L (0-1) 1.0 4 5 5 3 0
  Clancy   0.1 4 2 2 0 0
  Murphy   5.2 1 0 0 4 1
  Willis   1.0 2 1 1 1 1
Totals
8.0
11
8
8
8
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Billingham  W (1-0) 8.1 8 4 4 3 0
  Foucault  SV (1) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
3
1

  E–Hutton (1).  DP–Toronto 1, Detroit 2.  2B–Toronto Hutton (1,off Billingham); Howell (1,off Billingham), Detroit LeFlore (1,off Underwood).  SB–LeFlore (1,2nd base off Murphy/Ashby); Kemp (1,2nd base off Murphy/Ashby).  WP–Billingham 2 (2).  U-HP–Rich Garcia, 1B–Vic Voltaggio, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Ron Luciano.  T–2:26.  A–9,169.
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