Detroit Tigers vs Oakland Athletics
August 1, 2002 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 1, 2002 at Network Associates Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics 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 3, Oakland Athletics 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bocachica cf 5 1 1 2
Easley 2b 5 0 1 0
Higginson lf 4 0 0 0
Simon dh 4 0 2 0
Fick rf 4 1 1 0
Pena 1b 3 0 1 1
Jackson ss 3 0 2 0
Truby 3b 4 0 0 0
Inge c 3 1 0 0
Sparks p 0 0 0 0
  Santana p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 8 3
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Ellis 3b 4 0 0 0
Durham 2b 4 1 2 1
Tejada ss 3 2 1 1
Justice lf 4 0 0 0
  Mabry 1b 0 0 0 0
Chavez dh 4 2 2 3
Dye rf 4 0 0 0
Long cf 4 0 1 0
Saenz 1b 3 0 1 0
  Byrnes lf 0 0 0 0
Hernandez c 2 0 0 0
Harang p 0 0 0 0
  Bowie p 0 0 0 0
  Bradford p 0 0 0 0
  Rincon p 0 0 0 0
  Koch p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 7 5
Detroit 000 120 000381
Oakland 001 030 01x570
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sparks  L (5-11) 6.0 6 4 3 2 4
  Santana   2.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
5
4
2
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Harang   4.1 6 3 3 1 4
  Bowie  W (1-0) 0.2 1 0 0 1 0
  Bradford   1.1 1 0 0 0 3
  Rincon   1.1 0 0 0 0 3
  Koch  SV (27) 1.1 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
3
12

  E–Truby (6).  PB–Hernandez (4).  2B–Detroit Fick (29,off Harang); Simon (15,off Bowie), Oakland Durham (22,off Sparks).  HR–Detroit Bocachica (2,5th inning off Harang 1 on, 0 out), Oakland Tejada (24,3rd inning off Sparks 0 on, 1 out); Durham (10,5th inning off Sparks 0 on, 0 out); Chavez 2 (23,5th inning off Sparks 1 on, 1 out,8th inning off Santana 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Saenz (6,by Sparks).  SB–D Jackson (9,2nd base off Koch/Hernandez).  HBP–Sparks (7,Saenz).  U-HP–Tim Tschida, 1B–Mark Wegner, 2B–Bill Welke, 3B–Rick Reed.  T–3:01.  A–13,861.
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