Kansas City Royals vs Detroit Tigers
July 28, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 28, 1970 at Tiger Stadium. The Kansas City Royals 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

Kansas City Royals 7, Detroit Tigers 6

Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Kelly rf 4 1 1 0
Rojas 2b 5 0 0 0
Otis cf 5 1 1 1
Kirkpatrick c 4 1 2 0
Piniella lf 5 2 3 1
Oliver 1b 5 2 2 4
Sorrell 3b 3 0 1 0
  Abernathy p 1 0 0 0
Severson ss 4 0 2 1
Drago p 1 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
  Wright p 1 0 0 0
  Schaal ph,3b 1 0 1 0
Totals 39 7 13 7
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 3 1 0 0
Stanley cf 5 1 1 0
Kaline rf 3 1 1 0
Brown lf 2 1 2 1
  Maddox lf 0 0 0 0
Cash 1b 3 1 1 3
Freehan c 4 0 2 2
Wert 3b 3 0 0 0
Gutierrez ss 4 0 2 0
Niekro p 1 1 0 0
  LaGrow p 0 0 0 0
  Scherman p 0 0 0 0
  Jones ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 6 9 6
Kansas City 100 030 0127130
Detroit 200 020 020690
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Drago   4.1 5 4 4 5 2
  Burgmeier   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Wright   2.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Abernathy  W (4-3) 2.0 3 2 2 1 2
Totals
9.0
9
6
6
6
5
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Niekro   7.1 10 5 5 3 5
  LaGrow   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Scherman  L (3-2) 1.2 2 2 2 0 4
Totals
9.0
13
7
7
3
9

  E–None.  DP–Kansas City 2.  2B–Kansas City Kelly (10,off Niekro), Detroit Gutierrez (8,off Drago); Freehan (12,off Abernathy).  HR–Kansas City Oliver 2 (20,5th inning off Niekro 1 on, 2 out,9th inning off Scherman 1 on, 2 out), Detroit Cash (11,8th inning off Abernathy 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Drago (6,off Niekro); Niekro (13,off Drago); Wert (4,off Abernathy).  SF–Cash (4,off Burgmeier).  U-HP–Jerry Neudecker, 1B–Emmett Ashford, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Lou DiMuro.  T–2:52.  A–15,226.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."