Chicago Cubs vs Detroit Tigers
October 4, 1945 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 4, 1945 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago Cubs 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 1, Detroit Tigers 4

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Hack 3b 3 0 3 0
Johnson 2b 3 0 0 0
Lowrey lf 4 0 2 0
Cavarretta 1b 4 1 1 0
Pafko cf 4 0 0 0
Nicholson rf 3 0 1 1
Gillespie c 4 0 0 0
Hughes ss 3 0 0 0
Wyse p 2 0 0 0
  Secory ph 1 0 0 0
  Erickson p 0 0 0 0
  Becker ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 7 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Webb ss 4 1 2 0
Mayo 2b 3 1 0 0
Cramer cf 4 1 3 1
Greenberg lf 3 1 1 3
Cullenbine rf 2 0 0 0
York 1b 4 0 0 0
Outlaw 3b 4 0 1 0
Richards c 4 0 0 0
Trucks p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 7 4
Chicago 000 100 000170
Detroit 000 040 00x470
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Wyse  L (0-1) 6.0 5 4 4 3 1
  Erickson   2.0 2 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
7
4
4
4
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Trucks  W (1-0) 9.0 7 1 1 3 4
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
3
4

  E–None.  2B–Chicago Cavarretta (1,off Trucks); Hack (1,off Trucks).  HR–Detroit Greenberg (1,5th inning off Wyse 2 on, 2 out).  SH–Johnson (1,off Trucks).  U-HP–Lou Jorda (NL), 1B–Art Passarella (AL), 2B–Jocko Conlan (NL), 3B–Bill Summers (AL).  T–1:47.  A–53,636.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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