Detroit Tigers vs Toronto Blue Jays
April 13, 1977 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 13, 1977 at Exhibition Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays 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

Detroit Tigers 6, Toronto Blue Jays 7

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 0 1 1
Fuentes 2b 4 1 2 0
Oglivie rf 3 2 1 2
Staub dh 4 1 3 0
Thompson 1b 3 1 1 3
Kemp lf 4 0 0 0
May c 4 0 2 0
  Kimm pr,c 0 0 0 0
Rodriguez 3b 4 0 0 0
Wagner ss 3 1 1 0
  Wockenfuss ph 1 0 0 0
Sykes p 0 0 0 0
  Arroyo p 0 0 0 0
  Crawford p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 11 6
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Scott lf 2 1 0 0
  Woods A. ph,lf 0 1 0 0
Bailor ss 5 0 1 1
Garcia 2b 5 1 1 1
Velez dh 3 0 0 1
Ault 1b 4 1 2 2
Woods G. cf 4 1 0 0
McKay 3b 4 0 1 0
Bowling rf 3 2 1 0
Ashby c 3 0 2 0
Lemanczyk p 0 0 0 0
  Willis p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 8 5
Detroit 000 040 2006115
Toronto 000 124 00x780
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sykes   4.1 4 3 2 3 6
  Arroyo  L (0-1) 1.0 2 4 1 0 0
  Crawford   2.2 2 0 0 2 2
Totals
8.0
8
7
3
5
8
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Lemanczyk  W (1-1) 6.1 10 6 6 3 1
  Willis  SV (1) 2.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
11
6
6
3
2

  E–LeFlore (1), Fuentes (3), Wagner 3 (3).  DP–Toronto 1.  2B–Toronto Bailor (1,off Sykes).  3B–Detroit Wagner (1,off Lemanczyk).  HR–Detroit Thompson (2,5th inning off Lemanczyk 2 on, 2 out); Oglivie (1,7th inning off Lemanczyk 1 on, 1 out), Toronto Ault (3,6th inning off Arroyo 0 on, 0 out).  SF–LeFlore (1,off Lemanczyk).  SH–A Woods (2,off Crawford).  SB–G Woods (3,2nd base off Arroyo/May).  U-HP–Don Denkinger, 1B–Dave Phillips, 2B–Larry McCoy, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–2:27.  A–12,113.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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