Detroit Tigers vs Oakland Athletics
August 22, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 22, 2009 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. 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)
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Detroit Tigers 2, Oakland Athletics 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Granderson cf 4 1 1 0
Polanco 2b 4 1 2 0
Guillen lf 3 0 0 1
  Raburn ph,lf 1 0 1 0
Cabrera 1b 3 0 1 1
Huff dh 2 0 1 0
  Ordonez ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Thomas rf 4 0 0 0
Inge 3b 4 0 0 0
Avila c 4 0 0 0
Santiago ss 3 0 0 0
Galarraga p 0 0 0 0
  Perry p 0 0 0 0
  Miner p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 6 2
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Kennedy 3b 5 1 3 0
Davis cf 4 0 1 0
Suzuki c 5 0 2 1
Hairston lf 4 0 1 0
Sweeney rf 4 1 2 0
Ellis 2b 2 1 1 0
Cust dh 2 0 0 0
Barton 1b 3 0 0 1
Pennington ss 4 0 1 1
Cahill p 0 0 0 0
  Breslow p 0 0 0 0
  Bailey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 11 3
Detroit 100 001 000260
Oakland 020 000 0013110
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Galarraga   6.1 7 2 2 2 3
  Perry   1.2 2 0 0 1 2
  Miner  L(5-4) 0.1 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.1
11
3
3
3
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Cahill   7.0 5 2 2 3 4
  Breslow   1.0 1 0 0 0 2
  Bailey  W(6-3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
3
7

  E–None.  2B–Detroit Granderson (15,off Cahill).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Ellis (3,off Perry); Davis (2,off Miner).  SF–Barton (1,off Galarraga).  IBB–Cust (5,by Perry).  Team–11.  U-HP–Gary Cederstrom, 1B–Jim Wolf, 2B–Fieldin Culbreth, 3B–Adrian Johnson.  T–2:33.  A–26,266.
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