Oakland Athletics vs Detroit Tigers
May 11, 2004 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 11, 2004 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 5, Detroit Tigers 4

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Kotsay cf 6 0 2 1
Byrnes lf 5 0 0 0
  McMillon ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Chavez 3b 5 1 1 0
Dye rf 7 2 3 1
Durazo dh 7 0 2 0
Hatteberg 1b 6 0 4 1
Miller c 7 0 1 1
McLemore 2b 4 0 1 0
  Kielty ph 1 0 0 0
  Scutaro 2b 1 0 0 0
Crosby ss 5 2 2 1
Zito p 0 0 0 0
  Bradford p 0 0 0 0
  Rincon p 0 0 0 0
  Duchscherer p 0 0 0 0
  Mecir p 0 0 0 0
Totals 56 5 16 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Sanchez cf 7 1 3 1
Vina 2b 6 0 0 0
Rodriguez c 6 0 2 1
  Munson ph 1 0 0 0
White lf 7 0 2 1
Guillen ss 6 0 1 0
Monroe rf 4 0 1 0
  Pena ph,1b 2 0 1 0
Higginson dh 5 1 1 0
Norton 1b,3b 5 1 1 0
Inge 3b,rf 6 1 2 1
Johnson p 0 0 0 0
  Yan p 0 0 0 0
  Colyer p 0 0 0 0
  Urbina p 0 0 0 0
  Walker p 0 0 0 0
  Levine p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 55 4 14 4
Oakland 011 011 000 000 0015160
Detroit 100 030 000 000 0004140
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Zito   7.0 10 4 4 1 5
  Bradford   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Rincon   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Duchscherer  W (1-1) 5.0 1 0 0 1 4
  Mecir  SV (2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
15.0
14
4
4
2
12
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson   5.0 10 4 4 1 2
  Yan   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Colyer   2.0 0 0 0 0 3
  Urbina   1.0 1 0 0 1 3
  Walker   2.1 1 0 0 0 2
  Levine   1.2 1 0 0 1 0
  Patterson  L (0-2) 2.0 2 1 1 2 2
Totals
15.0
16
5
5
5
13

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 2, Detroit 4.  2B–Oakland Hatteberg (6,off Johnson); Kotsay (5,off Johnson).  HR–Oakland Dye (8,2nd inning off Johnson 0 on, 0 out); Crosby (4,3rd inning off Johnson 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–Hatteberg (1,by Patterson); Norton (1,by Duchscherer).  Team LOB–11.  SH–Higginson (1,off Duchscherer).  Team–9.  SB–Sanchez 2 (7,2nd base off Zito/Miller,3rd base off Zito/Miller); Vina (2,2nd base off Zito/Miller).  IBB–Duchscherer (3,Norton); Patterson (1,Hatteberg).  U-HP–Jeff Kellogg, 1B–Doug Eddings, 2B–Dan Iassogna, 3B–Charlie Reliford.  T–4:38.  A–15,859.
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