Detroit Tigers vs Seattle Mariners
May 9, 2012 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 2012 at Safeco Field. The Seattle Mariners 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 1, Seattle Mariners 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Jackson cf 2 0 0 1
Boesch rf 4 0 1 0
Cabrera 3b 4 0 0 0
Fielder 1b 3 0 0 0
Young dh 3 0 1 0
Raburn lf 3 0 0 0
Peralta ss 3 0 1 0
Laird c 3 1 1 0
Worth 2b 3 0 1 0
Smyly p 0 0 0 0
  Putkonen p 0 0 0 0
  Below p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 5 1
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Jaso c 4 0 1 1
Ryan ss 4 0 0 0
Suzuki rf 3 1 1 0
Montero dh 3 0 0 0
Seager 2b 3 0 1 1
Smoak 1b 3 0 0 0
Liddi 3b 3 0 0 0
Wells lf 1 0 0 0
  Saunders ph,cf 1 1 1 0
Figgins cf,lf 1 0 0 0
Vargas p 0 0 0 0
  League p 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 2 4 2
Detroit 000 001 000150
Seattle 000 100 01x240
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Smyly   6.0 2 1 1 2 5
  Putkonen  L(0-1) 1.1 1 1 1 0 2
  Below   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
1
0
0
0
0
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Vargas  W(4-2) 8.0 5 1 1 0 6
  League  SV(8) 1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
0
0
0
1
0

  E–None.  DP–Seattle 3. Seager-Ryan-Smoak, Seager-Ryan-Smoak, Ryan-Seager-Smoak.  2B–Detroit Laird (2,off Vargas), Seattle Seager (10,off Smyly); Saunders (9,off Putkonen).  SF–Jackson (1,off Vargas).  Team LOB–2.  SH–Figgins (5,off Putkonen).  Team–3.  SB–Suzuki (3,2nd base off Smyly/Laird).  U-HP–Mike Winters, 1B–Mike Muchlinski, 2B–Wally Bell, 3B–Brian Knight.  T–2:06.  A–15,655.
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