Houston Astros vs Detroit Tigers
July 15, 2000 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 15, 2000 at Comerica Park. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Houston Astros 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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Houston Astros 6, Detroit Tigers 11

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Spiers 3b,2b 4 0 1 0
Biggio 2b 4 0 0 0
  Truby 3b 1 0 0 0
Bagwell dh 3 1 1 0
Berkman rf 5 1 2 0
Alou lf 4 1 2 1
  Barker cf 0 0 0 0
Hidalgo cf,lf 3 1 1 2
Ward 1b 4 1 2 1
Eusebio c 4 1 1 2
Bogar ss 4 0 1 0
Lima p 0 0 0 0
  Perez p 0 0 0 0
  Henry p 0 0 0 0
  Valdes p 0 0 0 0
  Cabrera p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 11 6
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Polonia dh 5 2 3 2
Becker rf 4 1 1 1
Higginson lf 5 1 2 0
Palmer 3b 4 2 2 1
Cruz D. ss 4 1 2 2
Encarnacion cf 4 1 0 0
Ausmus c 3 2 3 3
Easley 2b 4 1 2 1
Halter 1b 3 0 0 1
Blair p 0 0 0 0
  Nitkowski p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Cruz N. p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 11 15 11
Houston 000 401 0106110
Detroit 010 021 70x11151
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Lima   6.0 10 4 4 1 1
  Perez   0.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Henry  L (1-3) 0.0 1 3 3 2 0
  Valdes   0.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Cabrera   2.0 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
15
11
11
3
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Blair   5.1 7 5 5 2 3
  Nitkowski   0.2 1 0 0 1 1
  Patterson  W (4-1) 2.0 2 1 1 0 1
  Cruz   1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
6
6
3
7

  E–Becker (5).  DP–Detroit 1.  2B–Houston Bagwell (20,off Blair); Alou (13,off Blair); Ward (5,off Nitkowski), Detroit Palmer (11,off Lima); Ausmus (12,off Lima); Higginson (26,off Perez).  3B–Detroit Polonia (4,off Cabrera).  HR–Houston Eusebio (3,4th inning off Blair 1 on, 2 out); Hidalgo (25,8th inning off Patterson 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Hidalgo (5,off Blair); D Cruz (4,off Lima); Halter (1,off Cabrera); Becker (4,off Cabrera).  U-HP–Phil Cuzzi, 1B–Mike Fichter, 2B–Tim McClelland, 3B–Terry Craft.  T–3:01.  A–39,189.
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