Detroit Tigers vs Tampa Bay Rays
September 6, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 6, 2009 at Tropicana Field. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 5, Tampa Bay Rays 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Granderson cf 5 0 1 0
Santiago 2b,ss 4 0 0 0
Guillen lf 3 0 0 0
Cabrera 1b 3 1 0 0
Huff dh 3 1 1 1
  Thames ph,dh 0 0 0 0
  Ramirez pr,dh 0 1 0 0
Ordonez rf 4 0 2 0
  Raburn pr,rf 0 1 0 0
Inge 3b 4 1 1 4
Laird c 2 0 0 0
  Polanco ph,2b 2 0 2 0
Everett ss 2 0 0 0
  Thomas ph 1 0 0 0
  Avila c 1 0 0 0
Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Lyon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 7 5
Tampa Bay Rays ab   r   h rbi
Bartlett ss 4 0 1 0
Crawford lf 4 0 0 0
Zobrist rf 3 0 1 0
Pena 1b 3 0 0 0
Burrell dh 3 0 0 0
Longoria 3b 4 1 1 1
Iwamura 2b 4 0 1 0
Navarro c 3 1 1 0
  Zaun ph 1 0 0 0
Perez cf 3 1 1 0
Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Cormier p 0 0 0 0
  Balfour p 0 0 0 0
  Howell p 0 0 0 0
  Springer p 0 0 0 0
  Choate p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 6 1
Detroit 010 000 004570
Tampa Bay 012 000 000360
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Jackson  W(12-6) 8.0 6 3 3 3 4
  Lyon  SV(3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
3
5
  Tampa Bay Rays IP H R ER BB SO
Davis   7.0 3 1 1 1 9
  Cormier   1.1 1 0 0 0 2
  Balfour   0.0 0 1 1 1 0
  Howell   0.0 0 1 1 1 0
  Springer  L(0-3) 0.0 3 2 2 0 0
  Choate   0.2 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
3
13

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Everett-Santiago-Cabrera.  2B–Detroit Granderson (18,off Davis), Tampa Bay Zobrist (20,off Jackson).  3B–Detroit Polanco (4,off Springer).  HR–Detroit Huff (14,2nd inning off Davis 0 on 1 out); Inge (27,9th inning off Springer 3 on 1 out), Tampa Bay Longoria (28,2nd inning off Jackson 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–5.  IBB–Pena (11,by Jackson).  Team–5.  SB–Polanco (6,2nd base off Cormier/Navarro).  U-HP–Laz Diaz, 1B–Eric Cooper, 2B–Mike Reilly, 3B–Chuck Meriwether.  T–2:48.  A–28,059.
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