The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 30, 1952 at Sportsman's Park III. The St. Louis Browns 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)
Detroit Tigers 2, St. Louis Browns 3
Detroit Tigers | ab | r | h | rbi |
Priddy 2b | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Kolloway 1b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Kell 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wertz rf | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Berry pr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Souchock rf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mullin lf | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Groth cf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Ginsberg c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Lipon ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Trucks p | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mapes ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Littlefield p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hutchinson ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Trout p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 33 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
Detroit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 2 | 7 | 0 | ||
St. Louis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 3 | 6 | 1 |
Detroit Tigers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Trucks | 7.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Littlefield | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Trout L(0-5) | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Totals | 8.1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
St. Louis Browns | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Pillette | 8.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Paige W(4-1) | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
E –Thomas (7). DP –Detroit 1. Mullin-Lipon-Trucks-Priddy, St. Louis 1. DeMaestri-Young-Kryhoski. 2B –Detroit Priddy 2 (12,off Pillette 2); Mullin (6,off Pillette); Kolloway (6,off Pillette), St. Louis DeMaestri (3,off Trout). Team LOB –7. SH –Thomas (2,off Trucks); Pillette (3,off Trucks); Rivera (2,off Littlefield). Team –7. CS –Kolloway (2,3rd base by Pillette/Courtney). U –Bill McKinley, Hank Soar, Bill McGowan. |
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