Tampa Bay Rays vs Detroit Tigers
April 11, 2012 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 11, 2012 at Comerica Park. The Tampa Bay Rays 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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Tampa Bay Rays 4, Detroit Tigers 2

Tampa Bay Rays ab   r   h rbi
Jennings cf 4 1 1 0
Pena 1b 3 1 0 0
Longoria 3b 4 1 1 1
Joyce lf 3 0 0 0
  Johnson ph,lf 0 0 0 0
Zobrist rf 4 0 2 2
Vogt dh 4 0 0 0
Lobaton c 2 0 0 0
Rodriguez 2b 2 0 0 0
  Keppinger ph,2b 2 1 1 0
Brignac ss 3 0 0 0
Shields p 0 0 0 0
  Rodney p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 5 3
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Jackson cf 4 1 1 0
Boesch rf 4 0 0 0
  Thomas rf 0 0 0 0
Cabrera 3b 4 0 2 1
Fielder 1b 3 0 0 0
Peralta ss 4 0 1 0
Avila c 3 0 0 0
Dirks dh 3 1 1 0
Santiago 2b 3 0 0 0
Kelly lf 3 0 1 0
Verlander p 0 0 0 0
  Schlereth p 0 0 0 0
  Valverde p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 6 1
Tampa Bay 000 000 004450
Detroit 100 010 000260
  Tampa Bay Rays IP H R ER BB SO
Shields  W(1-0) 8.0 6 2 2 1 5
  Rodney  SV(3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
0
0
0
0
0
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Verlander  L(0-1) 8.1 4 4 4 2 7
  Schlereth   0.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Valverde   0.2 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
1
0
0
1
0

  E–None.  DP–Tampa Bay 2. Pena-Brignac-Pena, Lobaton-Brignac, Detroit 1. Avila-Santiago.  2B–Detroit Dirks (1,off Shields).  Team LOB–4.  Team–3.  CS–Lobaton (1,2nd base by Verlander/Avila); Peralta (1,2nd base by Shields/Lobaton).  U-HP–Cory Blaser, 1B–Mark Carlson, 2B–Ed Hickox, 3B–Ed Rapuano.  T–2:48.  A–28,180.
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