Detroit Tigers vs Seattle Mariners
September 3, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 3, 1986 at Kingdome. The Seattle Mariners defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 2, Seattle Mariners 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 2 0 0 0
Fields lf 4 0 1 0
Gibson rf 4 0 1 0
Grubb dh 4 0 0 0
Evans 1b 2 2 2 0
Coles 3b 4 0 1 0
Sheridan cf 4 0 2 1
Lowry c 3 0 0 1
Baker ss 3 0 0 0
Tanana p 0 0 0 0
  Kelly p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 7 2
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Moses cf 4 0 1 0
Bradley lf 4 1 3 0
Davis 1b 4 0 0 0
Presley 3b 4 0 0 0
Tartabull rf 4 1 1 2
Hengel dh 3 0 0 0
  Phelps ph,dh 1 1 1 1
Kearney c 3 0 1 0
Quinones ss 3 0 0 0
Reynolds 2b 3 0 0 0
Swift p 0 0 0 0
  Trujillo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 7 3
Detroit 010 100 000271
Seattle 000 200 001370
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Tanana   8.0 6 2 0 0 6
  Kelly  L (0-1) 0.2 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.2
7
3
1
0
7
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Swift   4.0 6 2 2 2 3
  Trujillo  W (2-0) 5.0 1 0 0 3 2
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
5
5

  E–Whitaker (9).  DP–Seattle 1.  2B–Detroit Gibson (9,off Swift); Evans (14,off Swift).  HR–Seattle Tartabull (24,4th inning off Tanana 1 on, 2 out); Phelps (20,9th inning off Kelly 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Baker (1,off Trujillo).  IBB–Whitaker (5,by Trujillo).  CS–Whitaker (7,2nd base by Swift/Kearney); P Bradley (10,2nd base by Tanana/Lowry).  WP–Swift (1).  IBB–Trujillo (3,Whitaker).  U-HP–Mark Johnson, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Nick Bremigan, 3B–Al Clark.  T–2:26.  A–6,743.
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