Detroit Tigers vs Tampa Bay Devil Rays
July 31, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 31, 1998 at Tropicana Field. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays 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 1, Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hunter cf 4 0 1 0
Easley 2b,ss 3 0 0 0
  Siddall pr 0 0 0 0
Higginson rf 4 0 0 0
Clark 1b 3 0 1 0
Gonzalez lf 3 0 0 0
Catalanotto dh 4 1 1 0
Alvarez 3b 4 0 1 0
Bako c 2 0 1 1
Cruz ss 2 0 0 0
  Beamon ph 1 0 0 0
  Randa 2b 0 0 0 0
Greisinger p 0 0 0 0
  Crow p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Tampa Bay Devil Rays ab   r   h rbi
Winn cf 4 2 2 0
Boggs 3b 4 1 2 1
  Smith pr,3b 0 0 0 0
McCracken lf 4 1 1 1
McGriff 1b 4 0 4 2
Trammell rf 3 0 0 0
  Kelly pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Sorrento dh 4 0 1 0
Cairo 2b 4 1 2 1
Flaherty c 3 0 0 0
Stocker ss 3 0 0 0
Santana p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 12 5
Detroit 000 010 000150
Tampa Bay 103 000 10x5121
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Greisinger  L (1-6) 7.0 10 5 5 0 2
  Crow   1.0 2 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
12
5
5
1
3
  Tampa Bay Devil Rays IP H R ER BB SO
Santana  W (3-2) 8.0 5 1 1 0 2
  Lopez   0.1 0 0 0 2 0
  Hernandez  SV (19) 0.2 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
3
4

  E–Stocker (9).  DP–Detroit 1, Tampa Bay 2.  2B–Tampa Bay Cairo (17,off Greisinger); McCracken (23,off Greisinger).  HR–Tampa Bay Cairo (5,7th inning off Greisinger 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Bako (3,off Santana).  SB–Winn 2 (16,2nd base off Greisinger/Bako 2).  CS–Sorrento (3,2nd base by Greisinger/Bako).  U-HP–Dale Ford, 1B–Eric Cooper, 2B–Tim McClelland, 3B–Larry Young.  T–2:31.  A–25,654.
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