Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
June 29, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 29, 1978 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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, Cleveland Indians 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 1 1 0
Kemp lf 4 0 0 0
Staub dh 3 0 1 1
Thompson 1b 3 0 0 0
Rodriguez 3b 5 0 1 0
Stanley rf 3 2 1 0
Parrish c 4 0 2 1
Wagner ss 2 0 0 0
Dillard 2b 3 0 1 1
  Whitaker ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Sykes p 0 0 0 0
  Morris p 0 0 0 0
  Foucault p 0 0 0 0
  Crawford p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 3
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Dade rf 2 2 0 0
Veryzer ss 3 0 1 0
  Grubb ph 0 1 0 0
  Blanks ss 0 0 0 0
Thornton 1b 2 2 1 1
Alexander dh 4 1 1 3
Pruitt lf 2 0 0 0
  Manning cf 2 0 1 1
Cox 3b 3 0 0 0
Speed cf,lf 2 0 0 0
  Norris ph,lf 1 0 0 1
Kuiper 2b 4 0 0 0
Diaz c 3 0 0 0
Clyde p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 6 4 6
Detroit 011 001 000370
Cleveland 003 000 03x641
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sykes   3.0 2 3 3 3 1
  Morris  L (1-3) 4.1 1 3 3 2 1
  Foucault   0.1 1 0 0 2 1
  Crawford   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
4
6
6
7
4
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Clyde   5.1 4 3 2 6 2
  Kern  W (6-3) 3.2 3 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
7
3
2
6
5

  E–Cox (2).  PB–Diaz (1).  2B–Detroit LeFlore (10,off Clyde), Cleveland Veryzer (5,off Sykes).  HR–Cleveland Alexander (15,3rd inning off Sykes 2 on, 2 out).  SH–Wagner 2 (3,off Clyde,off Kern).  SF–Staub (5,off Clyde).  U-HP–Larry Barnett, 1B–Jim Evans, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Marty Springstead.  T–2:30.  A–5,672.
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