Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox
August 3, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 3, 1986 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox 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 1, Chicago White Sox 10

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 4 0 1 0
Trammell ss 4 0 0 0
  Bergman ph 1 0 0 0
Gibson rf 4 1 1 1
Grubb dh 2 0 1 0
  Herndon ph,dh 0 0 0 0
Evans 1b 3 0 1 0
Collins lf 3 0 1 0
Coles 3b 3 0 0 0
Lemon cf 4 0 0 0
Lowry c 3 0 1 0
O'Neal p 0 0 0 0
  Slaton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 6 1
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Cangelosi lf 5 1 2 0
Boston cf 5 2 1 3
Baines rf 4 1 1 3
Hairston dh 3 1 1 0
Hulett 3b 4 0 1 0
Morman 1b 4 1 3 2
Fisk c 4 2 2 1
Guillen ss 4 1 1 0
Cruz 2b 1 1 0 1
Cowley p 0 0 0 0
  Searage p 0 0 0 0
  Dawley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 10 12 10
Detroit 000 001 000160
Chicago 003 600 10x10120
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
O'Neal  L (1-6) 3.1 7 7 7 2 0
  Slaton   4.2 5 3 3 1 0
Totals
8.0
12
10
10
3
0
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Cowley  W (7-6) 7.0 5 1 1 5 6
  Searage   0.1 1 0 0 2 1
  Dawley   1.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
7
7

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 1.  2B–Detroit Grubb (4,off Cowley).  3B–Chicago Boston (2,off Slaton).  HR–Detroit Gibson (18,6th inning off Cowley 0 on, 1 out).  CS–Whitaker (5,2nd base by Cowley/Fisk).  WP–Cowley (2).  U-HP–Drew Coble, 1B–Tim McClelland, 2B–Don Denkinger, 3B–Mike Reilly.  T–2:54.  A–26,737.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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