Chicago Cubs vs Detroit Tigers
October 10, 1908 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 10, 1908 at Bennett Park. The Chicago Cubs 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago Cubs 10, Detroit Tigers 6

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Sheckard lf 6 1 3 0
Evers 2b 4 1 2 0
Schulte rf 4 2 2 1
Chance 1b 4 2 1 0
Steinfeldt 3b 3 2 2 2
Hofman cf 4 1 1 2
Tinker ss 5 1 2 2
Kling c 3 0 1 2
Reulbach p 3 0 0 0
  Overall p 1 0 0 0
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 10 14 9
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McIntyre lf 3 1 2 0
O'Leary ss 4 0 1 0
  Thomas ph 1 0 1 0
  Winter pr 0 0 0 0
Crawford cf 4 1 0 0
Cobb rf 4 2 2 1
Rossman 1b 4 1 2 1
Schaefer 3b 3 0 0 0
Schmidt c 4 0 0 1
Downs 2b 4 1 1 1
Killian p 0 0 0 0
  Summers p 3 0 1 1
  Jones ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 6 10 5
Chicago 004 000 10510142
Detroit 100 000 3206103
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Reulbach   6.2 8 4 4 0 5
  Overall   0.1 0 1 1 1 0
  Brown  W (1-0) 2.0 2 1 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
10
6
5
2
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Killian   2.1 5 4 3 3 1
  Summers  L (0-1) 6.2 9 6 5 1 2
Totals
9.0
14
10
8
4
3

  E–Evers (1), Chance (1), McIntyre (1), Schaefer (1), Downs (1).  2B–Chicago Sheckard 2 (2,off Killian 2), Detroit Downs (1,off Reulbach).  SH–Evers (1,off Summers); Schulte (1,off Summers); Kling (1,off Summers); Brown (1,off Summers); Cobb (1,off Brown); Schaefer (1,off Brown).  SF–Steinfeldt (1,off Summers).  HBP–McIntyre (1,by Overall).  SB–Chance 2 (2,2nd base off Killian/Schmidt,2nd base off Summers/Schmidt); Tinker 2 (2,2nd base off Summers/Schmidt 2); Hofman (1,3rd base off Summers/Schmidt); McIntyre (1,2nd base off Reulbach/Kling).  CS–Kling (1,2nd base by Summers/Schmidt).  HBP–Overall (1,McIntyre).  U–Jack Sheridan (AL), Hank O'Day (NL).  T–2:10.  A–10,812.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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