Seattle Mariners vs Detroit Tigers
July 28, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 28, 1978 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Seattle Mariners 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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Seattle Mariners 3, Detroit Tigers 4

Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Cruz 2b 4 1 1 0
Reynolds ss 4 1 2 0
Jones cf 3 1 1 0
Roberts rf 4 0 0 1
Paciorek lf 4 0 0 0
  Hale lf 0 0 0 0
Bochte dh 3 0 0 0
Meyer 1b 3 0 0 0
Bernhardt 3b 3 0 0 0
Stinson c 3 0 1 0
Colborn p 0 0 0 0
  House p 0 0 0 0
  Romo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 5 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 2 2 0
Whitaker 2b 4 1 2 2
Staub dh 4 0 2 1
Thompson 1b 3 1 2 1
Kemp lf 3 0 0 0
May c 3 0 0 0
Corcoran rf 2 0 0 0
  Stanley ph,rf 2 0 0 0
Mankowski 3b 2 0 0 0
  Rodriguez 3b 2 0 0 0
Trammell ss 3 0 1 0
  Parrish ph 1 0 0 0
Rozema p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 9 4
Seattle 000 000 300350
Detroit 010 001 002492
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Colborn   5.1 5 2 2 2 1
  House   2.0 2 0 0 1 0
  Romo  L (8-3) 1.1 2 2 2 1 2
Totals
8.2
9
4
4
4
3
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Rozema  W (5-5) 9.0 5 3 1 1 2
Totals
9.0
5
3
1
1
2

  E–May (9), Rodriguez (3).  DP–Seattle 1, Detroit 1.  2B–Seattle Cruz (11,off Rozema).  HR–Detroit Thompson (22,2nd inning off Colborn 0 on, 0 out); Whitaker (1,9th inning off Romo 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Whitaker (8,off Colborn).  IBB–May (2,by Romo).  SB–Ruppert Jones (12,2nd base off Rozema/May); LeFlore 2 (43,2nd base off Colborn/Stinson 2).  CS–Cruz (6,2nd base by Rozema/May).  IBB–Romo (6,May).  U-HP–Durwood Merrill, 1B–Marty Springstead, 2B–Larry Barnett, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:19.  A–20,484.
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