Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
September 15, 2000 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 15, 2000 at Comerica Park. The Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 7, Detroit Tigers 6

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Nixon rf 4 0 1 2
  Gilkey ph 1 0 0 0
  Lansing 2b 0 0 0 0
Offerman 2b,1b 2 1 0 0
Everett cf 5 0 0 0
Garciaparra ss 5 2 3 0
O'Leary lf 4 1 3 1
Daubach dh 2 1 1 1
  Bichette ph,dh 1 0 1 0
  Sadler pr,dh 0 1 0 0
  Burkhart ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Hatteberg c 4 1 1 1
Brogna 1b 3 0 0 0
  Varitek ph 1 0 1 1
  Lewis pr,rf 1 0 0 0
Alexander 3b 2 0 0 0
  Cummings ph 1 0 1 1
  Merloni 3b 0 0 0 0
Wakefield p 0 0 0 0
  Carrasco p 0 0 0 0
  Fassero p 0 0 0 0
  Cormier p 0 0 0 0
  Beck p 0 0 0 0
  Lowe p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 7 12 7
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McMillon dh 4 0 1 0
  Magee ph,dh 0 0 0 0
  Becker ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Encarnacion cf 3 1 0 0
Higginson lf 5 0 1 1
Gonzalez rf 4 1 1 1
Palmer 3b 3 1 0 0
Morris 1b 4 0 0 0
Cruz D. ss 4 2 2 0
Easley 2b 3 1 3 1
Ausmus c 4 0 1 2
Sparks p 0 0 0 0
  Nitkowski p 0 0 0 0
  Anderson p 0 0 0 0
  Blair p 0 0 0 0
  Tolar p 0 0 0 0
  Cruz N. p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 6 9 5
Boston 030 010 0217121
Detroit 021 001 200690
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wakefield   5.0 5 3 2 3 6
  Carrasco   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Fassero   1.1 2 2 2 2 2
  Cormier   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Beck  W (1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Lowe  SV (35) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
6
5
5
9
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sparks   4.1 6 4 4 4 2
  Nitkowski   2.2 1 1 1 1 1
  Anderson   0.1 0 1 1 1 0
  Blair   0.0 2 0 0 0 0
  Tolar   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Cruz  L (5-2) 0.1 2 1 1 1 1
  Jones   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
12
7
7
7
5

  E–Everett (6).  DP–Detroit 1.  PB–Hatteberg (7).  2B–Boston Garciaparra (48,off Sparks), Detroit Higginson (40,off Wakefield); D Cruz (46,off Carrasco).  HR–Detroit Gonzalez (21,7th inning off Fassero 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Morris (1,off Fassero).  HBP–Encarnacion (6,by Wakefield).  IBB–Encarnacion (1,by Fassero).  SB–Nixon (8,2nd base off Sparks/Ausmus); McMillon (1,2nd base off Wakefield/Hatteberg); Encarnacion (13,2nd base off Wakefield/Hatteberg).  CS–Gonzalez (2,2nd base by Wakefield/Hatteberg).  WP–Wakefield (2).  HBP–Wakefield (3,Encarnacion).  IBB–Fassero (2,Encarnacion).  U-HP–C.B. Bucknor, 1B–Rick Reed, 2B–Hunter Wendelstedt, 3B–Al Clark.  T–3:49.  A–33,785.
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