Oakland Athletics vs Detroit Tigers
August 6, 2003 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 6, 2003 at Comerica Park. 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Oakland Athletics 9, Detroit Tigers 3

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Ellis 2b 4 1 1 0
Guillen rf 5 2 3 0
Chavez 3b 5 3 3 5
Tejada ss 4 0 0 0
Durazo dh 4 0 1 1
Hernandez c 5 0 1 0
Hatteberg 1b 5 1 2 0
Piatt lf 5 2 2 2
Byrnes cf 4 0 1 1
Hudson p 0 0 0 0
  Halama p 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 9 14 9
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Sanchez cf 4 1 1 0
Morris 2b 4 0 0 0
Higginson rf 4 1 2 2
Young dh 4 0 0 0
Witt lf 3 0 1 0
  Monroe ph 1 0 0 0
Pena 1b 4 0 1 0
Munson 3b 4 1 1 1
Walbeck c 3 0 1 0
Santiago ss 2 0 0 0
Ledezma p 0 0 0 0
  Spurling p 0 0 0 0
  Walker p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Mears p 0 0 0 0
  Sparks p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 7 3
Oakland 120 100 2039141
Detroit 002 000 100370
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Hudson  W (10-4) 8.0 7 3 3 0 6
  Halama   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
0
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Ledezma  L (3-6) 5.0 7 4 4 3 1
  Spurling   1.1 2 2 2 0 1
  Walker   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Patterson   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Mears   0.1 4 3 3 0 0
  Sparks   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
14
9
9
3
3

  E–Guillen (1).  2B–Oakland Hatteberg (24,off Ledezma); Piatt (10,off Ledezma); Chavez (25,off Mears).  HR–Oakland Chavez 2 (22,1st inning off Ledezma 0 on, 2 out,7th inning off Spurling 1 on, 0 out); Piatt (4,4th inning off Ledezma 0 on, 2 out), Detroit Higginson (8,3rd inning off Hudson 1 on, 2 out); Munson (16,7th inning off Hudson 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–Tejada (6,by Ledezma).  SH–Santiago (13,off Hudson).  SB–Byrnes 2 (9,2nd base off Ledezma/Walbeck,3rd base off Ledezma/Walbeck).  IBB–Ledezma (3,Tejada).  U-HP–Jeff Kellogg, 1B–Joe West, 2B–Bill Welke, 3B–Bill Miller.  T–2:34.  A–16,545.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook