Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
September 17, 2000 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 17, 2000 at Comerica Park. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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 4, Detroit Tigers 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Nixon rf 3 0 1 0
Offerman 2b 4 1 1 0
Everett cf 2 0 1 0
  Lewis pr,cf 1 0 0 0
  Hatteberg ph 1 1 1 2
  Sadler cf 0 0 0 0
Garciaparra ss 4 1 1 0
O'Leary lf 4 1 1 0
Bichette dh 4 0 0 0
Daubach 1b 4 0 1 1
Varitek c 4 0 1 1
Alexander 3b 1 0 0 0
  Cummings ph 1 0 0 0
  Merloni 3b 0 0 0 0
  Gilkey ph 1 0 0 0
Martinez p 0 0 0 0
  Fassero p 0 0 0 0
  Wakefield p 0 0 0 0
  Cormier p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 8 4
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McMillon dh 4 0 0 0
Easley 2b 3 0 1 0
Higginson lf 4 0 1 0
Gonzalez rf 4 1 1 0
Palmer 3b 4 1 1 2
Clark 1b 3 1 2 0
  Morris pr,1b 0 1 0 0
  Magee ph 1 0 0 0
  Allen 1b 0 0 0 0
Ausmus c 3 1 2 1
Encarnacion cf 4 0 0 0
Halter ss 3 0 1 0
Mlicki p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 9 3
Boston 000 000 121481
Detroit 010 202 00x591
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Martinez  L (10-7) 5.0 8 5 3 2 3
  Fassero   1.1 1 0 0 0 1
  Wakefield   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Cormier   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
5
3
2
5
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Mlicki  W (6-11) 7.0 4 1 1 1 2
  Patterson   1.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Jones  SV (39) 1.0 2 1 1 0 2
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
1
4

  E–Lewis (2), Higginson (7).  2B–Detroit Clark (14,off R Martinez); Easley (27,off R Martinez); Gonzalez (30,off R Martinez).  HR–Boston Hatteberg (8,8th inning off Patterson 1 on, 2 out), Detroit Palmer (27,4th inning off R Martinez 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Nixon (5,off Mlicki).  SB–Higginson (14,2nd base off Wakefield/Varitek).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–C.B. Bucknor, 2B–Rick Reed, 3B–Hunter Wendelstedt.  T–2:47.  A–33,174.
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