Detroit Tigers vs Oakland Athletics
August 21, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 2009 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Oakland Athletics 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 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Polanco 2b 4 0 1 0
Thames dh 4 0 0 0
  Huff ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Raburn lf 4 2 2 2
Cabrera 1b 3 1 1 0
Ordonez rf 1 0 0 0
  Granderson ph,cf 1 0 1 0
Inge 3b 4 0 0 0
Thomas cf,rf 4 0 1 1
Laird c 2 0 1 0
Everett ss 4 0 0 0
Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Seay p 0 0 0 0
  Lyon p 0 0 0 0
  Rodney p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 3
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Kennedy 3b 4 0 0 0
Davis cf 4 0 2 1
Suzuki c 3 0 0 0
Hairston lf 4 0 0 0
Sweeney rf 4 1 2 0
Ellis 2b 4 0 0 0
Cust dh 4 1 3 1
Barton 1b 2 0 1 0
  Everidge ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Pennington ss 2 0 0 0
  Garciaparra ph 1 0 0 0
Gonzalez p 0 0 0 0
  Ziegler p 0 0 0 0
  Marshall p 0 0 0 0
  Wuertz p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Detroit 101 001 000372
Oakland 010 000 100280
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Jackson  W(10-5) 6.0 6 2 2 1 5
  Seay   0.2 0 0 0 1 2
  Lyon   1.1 1 0 0 0 1
  Rodney  SV(26) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
2
9
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Gonzalez  L(4-4) 5.2 4 3 3 4 9
  Ziegler   2.0 3 0 0 0 1
  Marshall   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Wuertz   1.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
6
10

  E–Raburn (9), Jackson (4).  DP–Oakland 1. Sweeney-Everidge.  2B–Oakland Sweeney (20,off Jackson); Davis (14,off Lyon).  HR–Detroit Raburn 2 (10,1st inning off G. Gonzalez 0 on 2 out,3rd inning off G. Gonzalez 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Pennington (1,off Jackson); Everidge (1,off Rodney).  Team–8.  U-HP–Adrian Johnson, 1B–Gary Cederstrom, 2B–Jim Wolf, 3B–Fieldin Culbreth.  T–2:54.  A–15,927.
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