Texas Rangers vs Detroit Tigers
August 18, 2003 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 18, 2003 at Comerica Park. The Texas Rangers 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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Texas Rangers 4, Detroit Tigers 2

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Young 2b 7 0 1 0
Sadler 3b 4 0 0 0
  Blalock ph,3b 3 1 1 0
Rodriguez ss 7 1 1 2
Palmeiro dh 7 1 2 0
Spencer lf 7 1 3 2
Teixeira 1b 7 0 1 0
Thames rf 3 0 1 0
  Nix ph,rf 3 0 1 0
Greene c 4 0 1 0
  Diaz pr,c 2 0 0 0
Nivar cf 5 0 1 0
Valdez p 0 0 0 0
  Fultz p 0 0 0 0
  Shouse p 0 0 0 0
  Cordero p 0 0 0 0
  Ramirez p 0 0 0 0
  Mahay p 0 0 0 0
  Dickey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 59 4 13 4
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Sanchez cf 7 0 2 0
Morris 2b 2 0 0 0
  Klassen ph,ss 4 0 0 0
Higginson rf 7 0 0 0
Young dh 7 0 1 0
Pena 1b 6 0 0 0
Petrick lf 5 0 1 0
Halter 3b,2b 6 1 2 1
Inge c 6 1 3 1
Santiago ss 2 0 0 0
  Monroe ph 0 0 0 0
  Witt 3b 3 0 1 0
Robertson p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Roney p 0 0 0 0
  Walker p 0 0 0 0
  Sparks p 0 0 0 0
Totals 55 2 10 2
Texas 000 200 000 000 000 24132
Detroit 001 000 001 000 000 02101
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Valdez   6.1 3 1 1 3 2
  Fultz   0.2 2 0 0 1 0
  Shouse   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Cordero   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Ramirez   3.0 2 0 0 0 2
  Mahay  W (2-0) 3.0 2 0 0 0 7
  Dickey  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
16.0
10
2
2
4
13
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Robertson   8.1 8 2 2 0 8
  Patterson   1.2 0 0 0 0 3
  Roney   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Walker   3.0 1 0 0 0 3
  Sparks  L (0-6) 2.0 4 2 2 1 0
Totals
16.0
13
4
4
1
14

  E–Spencer (2), Teixeira (12), Klassen (2).  DP–Texas 1, Detroit 1.  2B–Texas Palmeiro (17,off Robertson); Spencer (15,off Robertson); Nix (7,off Sparks), Detroit Inge (11,off Fultz); Witt (8,off Mahay).  HR–Texas Spencer (11,4th inning off Robertson 1 on, 1 out); Rodriguez (34,16th inning off Sparks 1 on, 0 out), Detroit Inge (5,3rd inning off Valdes 0 on, 1 out); Halter (7,9th inning off Cordero 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Nivar (1,off Patterson); Nix (1,off Walker).  IBB–Monroe (2,by Fultz).  SB–Sanchez (28,2nd base off Valdes/Greene); Inge (1,2nd base off Ramirez/Diaz).  CS–Sanchez (14,2nd base by Valdes/Greene); D Young (1,2nd base by Ramirez/Diaz).  WP–Valdes (2).  IBB–Fultz (7,Monroe).  U-HP–Jeff Nelson, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Rick Reed, 3B–Alfonso Marquez.  T–3:59.  A–11,698.
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