Detroit Tigers vs Toronto Blue Jays
August 8, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 8, 1997 at Skydome. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 3, Toronto Blue Jays 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hunter cf 4 0 2 0
Higginson rf 4 2 3 0
Fryman 3b 2 0 0 2
Clark 1b 4 1 2 0
Hamelin dh 2 0 1 0
  Miller ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Easley 2b 4 0 2 1
Nevin lf 4 0 0 0
Casanova c 4 0 0 0
Cruz ss 3 0 1 0
  Pride ph 1 0 0 0
Blair p 0 0 0 0
  Myers p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 11 3
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Nixon cf 5 0 3 0
Duncan 2b 5 1 2 0
Cruz, Jr. lf 4 1 1 0
Carter rf 4 2 2 2
Delgado 1b 3 2 2 4
Sprague 3b 4 0 0 0
Green dh 4 0 0 0
Santiago c 4 0 2 0
Gonzalez ss 3 0 0 0
Williams p 0 0 0 0
  Plesac p 0 0 0 0
  Quantrill p 0 0 0 0
  Escobar p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 12 6
Detroit 200 010 0003111
Toronto 004 000 02x6120
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Blair  L (11-5) 7.0 9 5 4 1 7
  Myers   1.0 3 1 1 1 1
Totals
8.0
12
6
5
2
8
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Williams  W (7-10) 7.0 10 3 3 1 4
  Plesac   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Quantrill   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Escobar  SV (8) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
1
4

  E–Clark (7).  DP–Detroit 1, Toronto 1.  2B–Detroit Cruz (18,off Williams); Higginson (22,off Williams), Toronto Nixon (10,off Blair); Santiago (6,off Blair).  3B–Detroit Higginson 2 (3,off Williams 2), Toronto Carter (2,off Blair).  HR–Toronto Delgado 2 (24,3rd inning off Blair 1 on, 1 out,8th inning off Myers 1 on, 0 out).  SF–Fryman 2 (9,off Williams 2).  SB–Hunter (55,2nd base off Williams/Santiago); Duncan (5,2nd base off Blair/Casanova).  CS–Easley (10,2nd base by Quantrill/Santiago).  WP–Williams 3 (6).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Jim Evans, 2B–Chuck Meriwether, 3B–Ted Barrett.  T–2:58.  A–30,228.
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