Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
September 4, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 4, 1979 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 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 1 1 0
Whitaker 2b 3 0 1 1
  Wockenfuss ph 1 0 0 0
Kemp lf 3 0 1 2
Summers rf 2 0 0 0
  Morales ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Thompson 1b 4 0 1 0
Greene dh 2 0 0 0
  Jones ph,dh 1 0 1 0
Parrish c 3 1 0 0
Brookens 3b 4 0 0 0
Trammell ss 4 1 2 0
Petry p 0 0 0 0
  Chris p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 3
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Hargrove lf 3 2 1 1
Manning cf 3 1 0 0
Bonds rf 4 1 3 4
Harrah 3b 3 0 1 0
Thornton 1b 3 0 0 0
Hassey c 3 0 2 0
Norris dh 3 0 1 0
  Pruitt ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Kuiper 2b 4 0 0 0
Veryzer ss 3 1 1 0
Barker p 0 0 0 0
  Monge p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 9 5
Detroit 000 000 300370
Cleveland 320 000 00x590
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Petry  L (5-5) 2.0 6 5 5 2 0
  Chris   6.0 3 0 0 3 3
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
5
3
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Barker  W (6-4) 6.2 6 3 3 5 4
  Monge  SV (18) 2.1 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
6
6

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 3, Cleveland 2.  2B–Cleveland Hargrove (16,off Petry); Norris (13,off Chris); Hassey (11,off Chris).  3B–Cleveland Veryzer (2,off Petry).  HR–Cleveland Bonds (21,1st inning off Petry 2 on, 0 out).  U-HP–Ron Luciano, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–Rocky Roe, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–2:08.  A–4,824.
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