Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
September 3, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 3, 1998 at Tiger 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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Cleveland Indians 2, Detroit Tigers 1

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Lofton cf 3 0 1 2
Vizquel ss 4 0 0 0
Justice lf 3 0 0 0
  Whiten lf 0 0 0 0
Ramirez rf 4 0 1 0
Fryman 3b 3 0 1 0
Fielder dh 4 0 0 0
Sexson 1b 4 0 0 0
Alomar, Jr. c 3 1 2 0
Wilson 2b 3 1 2 0
Gooden p 0 0 0 0
  Poole p 0 0 0 0
  Reed p 0 0 0 0
  Assenmacher p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 7 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bartee cf 4 0 1 1
Higginson lf 4 0 0 0
Encarnacion rf 4 0 2 0
Clark 1b 4 0 1 0
Easley 2b 4 0 0 0
Gonzalez dh 4 0 0 0
Alvarez 3b 1 1 0 0
  Randa pr,3b 1 0 1 0
Bako c 4 0 1 0
Cruz ss 3 0 1 0
  Catalanotto ph 1 0 0 0
Thompson p 0 0 0 0
  Anderson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 7 1
Cleveland 002 000 000270
Detroit 001 000 000171
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Gooden  W (7-6) 7.0 5 1 1 1 5
  Poole   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Reed   0.2 1 0 0 0 1
  Assenmacher   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Jackson  SV (35) 0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
1
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Thompson  L (10-13) 8.0 6 2 2 2 6
  Anderson   1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
2
8

  E–Alvarez (19).  DP–Detroit 1.  2B–Cleveland Lofton (28,off Thompson); Alomar (24,off Thompson).  SH–Lofton (3,off Thompson).  HBP–Alvarez (2,by Gooden).  CS–Fryman 2 (8,2nd base by Thompson/Bako,2nd base by Anderson/Bako).  SB–Encarnacion (4,2nd base off Gooden/Alomar).  HBP–Gooden (9,Alvarez).  U-HP–Brian O'Nora, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Chuck Meriwether, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:34.  A–14,605.
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