Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 28, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1978 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."

"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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Detroit Tigers 3, Boston Red Sox 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 0 0 0
Whitaker 2b 4 0 1 0
Staub dh 4 0 2 0
Thompson 1b 4 1 1 0
Kemp lf 4 1 1 1
May c 3 0 0 0
Corcoran rf 3 0 2 1
Mankowski 3b 3 1 1 0
Trammell ss 3 0 1 0
Slaton p 0 0 0 0
  Crawford p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 9 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 4 1 1 0
Lynn cf 3 0 2 1
Rice lf 4 0 2 0
Yastrzemski 1b 3 1 2 0
Hobson 3b 4 1 2 0
Evans rf 4 1 2 2
Brohamer dh 2 0 1 1
  Bailey ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Montgomery c 3 0 0 0
Duffy ss 2 0 0 0
Wright p 0 0 0 0
  Drago p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 12 4
Detroit 001 000 200390
Boston 010 200 10x4120
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Slaton  L (4-2) 6.1 11 4 4 1 2
  Crawford   1.2 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
12
4
4
2
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wright  W (2-0) 7.0 9 3 3 0 3
  Drago  SV (5) 2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
0
4

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1, Boston 3.  2B–Detroit Mankowski (2,off Wright), Boston Brohamer (5,off Slaton).  3B–Detroit Kemp (2,off Wright), Boston Hobson (2,off Slaton); Remy (4,off Slaton).  HR–Boston Evans (9,4th inning off Slaton 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Montgomery (1,off Slaton).  SF–Brohamer (1,off Slaton); Lynn (2,off Slaton).  CS–Brohamer (3,Home by Slaton/May); Evans (2,2nd base by Crawford/May).  U-HP–Dave Phillips, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Don Denkinger.  T–2:19.  A–34,672.
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