Detroit Tigers vs Oakland Athletics
August 23, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 23, 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."

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Detroit Tigers 4, Oakland Athletics 9

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Granderson cf 3 1 1 1
  Raburn ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Thomas rf,cf 4 1 1 0
Guillen lf 3 0 0 0
Cabrera 1b 4 2 3 2
Huff dh 4 0 0 0
Inge 3b 4 0 1 0
Avila c 3 0 0 0
Everett ss 2 0 0 0
  Thames ph 1 0 1 1
  Polanco 2b 1 0 0 0
Santiago 2b,ss 4 0 2 0
Porcello p 0 0 0 0
  Ni p 0 0 0 0
  Perry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 9 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Kennedy 3b 5 0 1 0
Davis cf 5 1 1 1
Sweeney rf 3 1 0 0
Hairston lf 5 0 0 0
Cust dh 3 3 3 4
Ellis 2b 4 1 2 0
Powell c 4 1 2 3
Barton 1b 4 0 1 0
Pennington ss 4 2 2 1
Tomko p 0 0 0 0
  Ziegler p 0 0 0 0
  Breslow p 0 0 0 0
  Wuertz p 0 0 0 0
  Gray p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 9 12 9
Detroit 100 000 120491
Oakland 004 001 04x9120
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Porcello  L(10-8) 5.1 8 5 5 1 1
  Ni   1.2 1 2 2 1 0
  Perry   1.0 3 2 2 1 2
Totals
8.0
12
9
9
3
3
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Tomko  W(3-2) 6.0 3 1 1 2 8
  Ziegler   0.2 3 1 1 0 0
  Breslow   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Wuertz   1.1 2 2 2 0 2
  Gray   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
2
10

  E–Guillen (1).  DP–Oakland 2. Powell-Ellis, Powell-Barton.  2B–Oakland Ellis (17,off Ni).  HR–Detroit Granderson (24,1st inning off Tomko 0 on 0 out); Cabrera (25,8th inning off Wuertz 1 on 1 out), Oakland Cust 2 (19,3rd inning off Porcello 2 on 2 out,6th inning off Porcello 0 on 0 out); Powell (4,8th inning off Perry 2 on 0 out); Pennington (2,8th inning off Perry 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–5.  IBB–Sweeney (1,by Perry).  Team–7.  CS–Guillen (2,2nd base by Tomko/Powell).  SB–Davis (27,3rd base off Ni/Avila); Kennedy (16,2nd base off Perry/Avila).  U-HP–Jim Wolf, 1B–Fieldin Culbreth, 2B–Adrian Johnson, 3B–Gary Cederstrom.  T–2:51.  A–17,690.
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