Texas Rangers vs Detroit Tigers
July 18, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 18, 1986 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Texas Rangers 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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Texas Rangers 0, Detroit Tigers 5

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Fletcher ss 4 0 1 0
Harrah 2b 4 0 0 0
O'Brien 1b 4 0 0 0
Incaviglia rf 3 0 0 0
Ward lf 3 0 0 0
Parrish dh 2 0 0 0
Slaught c 3 0 1 0
Sierra cf 2 0 0 0
Buechele 3b 3 0 0 0
Mason p 0 0 0 0
  Russell p 0 0 0 0
  Mahler p 0 0 0 0
  Mohorcic p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 2 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 4 0 0 0
Trammell ss 4 1 1 0
Gibson rf 4 1 4 1
Parrish c 3 1 0 0
Coles dh 4 2 3 2
Herndon lf 3 0 0 0
Brookens 3b 4 0 1 1
Lemon cf 4 0 2 1
Engle 1b 0 0 0 0
  Evans ph,1b 3 0 0 0
Morris p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 11 5
Texas 000 000 000021
Detroit 112 010 00x5110
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Mason  L (6-3) 1.0 3 2 2 1 0
  Russell   4.0 6 3 3 2 2
  Mahler   2.1 2 0 0 1 2
  Mohorcic   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
11
5
5
4
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Morris  W (10-6) 9.0 2 0 0 2 11
Totals
9.0
2
0
0
2
11

  E–Sierra (1).  DP–Texas 1.  2B–Texas Fletcher (18,off Morris); Slaught (7,off Morris), Detroit Trammell (19,off Mason).  HR–Detroit Coles (11,5th inning off Russell 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Evans (1,by Mahler).  CS–Fletcher (6,3rd base by Morris/Parrish); Gibson (3,2nd base by Mason/Slaught).  WP–Russell (2).  HBP–Mahler (3,Evans).  U-HP–Ken Kaiser, 1B–Dale Scott, 2B–Steve Palermo, 3B–Joe Brinkman.  T–2:47.  A–23,131.
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