Detroit Tigers vs Seattle Mariners
May 31, 2008 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 2008 at Safeco Field. The Seattle Mariners 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 0, Seattle Mariners 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Granderson cf 4 0 0 0
Polanco 2b 3 0 0 0
Guillen 3b 4 0 1 0
Ordonez rf 3 0 1 0
Thames lf 3 0 0 0
Cabrera 1b 2 0 0 0
Larish dh 3 0 0 0
Renteria ss 3 0 0 0
Rodriguez c 3 0 0 0
Verlander p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 2 0
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Suzuki cf 4 0 0 1
Lopez 2b 5 1 2 0
Vidro dh 3 1 2 0
Ibanez lf 3 0 0 0
Beltre 3b 4 0 0 0
Johjima c 4 1 2 2
Reed rf 4 1 1 1
Cairo 1b 3 1 1 0
Betancourt ss 4 0 2 0
Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
  Morrow p 0 0 0 0
  Putz p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 10 4
Detroit 000 000 000–020
Seattle 200 200 01x–5100
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Verlander  L(2-8) 7.0 8 4 4 2 1
  Lopez   1.0 2 1 1 2 0
Totals
8.0
2
1
1
2
0
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Hernandez  W(3-5) 7.0 2 0 0 0 7
  Morrow   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Putz   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
0
0
0
0
2
  E–None.  DP–Seattle 1. Beltre-Lopez-Cairo.  2B–Seattle Johjima (8,off Verlander).  HR–Seattle Reed (1,8th inning off Lopez 0 on 2 out).  HBP–Polanco (4,by Hernandez); Cabrera (2,by Hernandez).  Team LOB–3.  Team–9.  SB–Johjima (2,Home off Verlander/Rodriguez).  U-HP–Ron Kulpa, 1B–Dan Iassogna, 2B–Dale Scott, 3B–Bill Hohn.  T–2:28.  A–33,441.
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