Oakland Athletics vs Detroit Tigers
July 24, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 24, 1978 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Oakland Athletics 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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Oakland Athletics 1, Detroit Tigers 4

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Edwards 2b 4 0 1 0
Dilone rf 3 0 0 0
Page lf 4 0 0 0
Revering 1b 4 0 0 0
Horton dh 3 1 3 0
  Murphy pr,dh 1 0 0 0
Guerrero ss 2 0 1 0
Duncan 3b 4 0 0 0
Wallis cf 3 0 1 1
Newman c 3 0 0 0
Keough p 0 0 0 0
  Lacey p 0 0 0 0
  Sosa p 0 0 0 0
  Heaverlo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 6 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 1 1 1
Whitaker 2b 2 1 1 1
Staub dh 4 1 1 2
Thompson 1b 4 0 2 0
Kemp lf 3 0 1 0
May c 4 0 0 0
Corcoran rf 1 0 0 0
  Wockenfuss ph,rf 3 0 0 0
Mankowski 3b 0 0 0 0
  Rodriguez 3b 4 1 3 0
Trammell ss 3 0 1 0
Young p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 10 4
Oakland 010 000 000161
Detroit 200 002 00x4101
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Keough  L (6-7) 0.1 4 2 2 0 0
  Lacey   3.2 3 0 0 1 3
  Sosa   1.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Heaverlo   3.0 2 2 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
10
4
3
2
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Young  W (1-1) 9.0 6 1 1 2 3
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
3

  E–Newman (6), Thompson (8).  2B–Oakland Horton (12,off Young), Detroit Rodriguez 2 (12,off Lacey 2).  HR–Detroit Staub (16,1st inning off Keough 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Guerrero 2 (13,off Young 2); Trammell (4,off Heaverlo).  SF–Whitaker (3,off Heaverlo).  SB–Dilone (31,2nd base off Young/May); LeFlore (39,2nd base off Heaverlo/Newman).  CS–Horton (1,3rd base by Young/May).  U-HP–Bill Deegan, 1B–Terry Cooney, 2B–Al Clark, 3B–Bill Kunkel.  T–2:19.  A–19,733.
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