Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
May 19, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 19, 1978 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 5, Detroit Tigers 7

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burleson ss 3 1 1 0
Remy 2b 5 0 2 0
Rice lf 5 1 1 2
Yastrzemski 1b 5 0 0 0
Fisk c 3 0 2 0
Lynn cf 4 0 1 0
Hobson 3b 3 1 1 0
Evans rf 4 1 2 2
Bailey dh 4 1 3 1
Torrez p 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 13 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 5 1 1 0
Whitaker 2b 3 1 2 1
Staub dh 3 1 1 2
Thompson 1b 3 1 0 0
Kemp lf 2 1 1 0
May c 4 0 1 0
Corcoran rf 4 1 1 1
Mankowski 3b 2 0 1 0
  Rodriguez 3b 1 1 0 0
Trammell ss 4 0 2 2
Sykes p 0 0 0 0
  Hiller p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 7 10 6
Boston 200 000 0035133
Detroit 004 000 03x7100
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Torrez  L (5-2) 7.1 8 6 5 6 4
  Burgmeier   0.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Stanley   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
7
6
6
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sykes  W (3-0) 8.0 12 4 4 3 5
  Hiller  SV (4) 1.0 1 1 1 1 2
Totals
9.0
13
5
5
4
7

  E–Lynn (3), Hobson (7), Evans (2).  DP–Boston 2, Detroit 4.  2B–Boston Fisk (7,off Sykes), Detroit Mankowski (1,off Torrez); Trammell (3,off Stanley).  HR–Boston Rice (12,1st inning off Sykes 1 on, 1 out); Evans (4,9th inning off Sykes 1 on, 0 out); Bailey (1,9th inning off Hiller 0 on, 0 out), Detroit Staub (4,3rd inning off Torrez 1 on, 1 out).  SB–LeFlore (16,2nd base off Torrez/Fisk).  U-HP–Joe Brinkman, 1B–Dale Ford, 2B–Nick Bremigan, 3B–Russ Goetz.  T–2:30.  A–48,817.
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