April 11, 1973
It was a beautiful sunny day at Tiger Stadium for Detroit's 1973 Home Opening game. The Tigers come home after opening the season on the road in Cleveland with a 2-0 record. They will be hosting the Baltimore Orioles who opened the season in Baltimore and are1-1.
Woodie Fryman would start the game for Detroit and Jim Palmer got the start for the Orioles. Baltimore's Brooks Robinson opened the scoring with a solo homerun in the 2nd inning. Fryman was in trouble every inning and gave up 5 runs (3 unearned) in the 5th inning before getting the hook. Robinson hit his 2nd homer of the game off Tom Timmermann in the 7th.
Detroit could do nothing against Palmer who had given up just 1 hit going into the 8th inning. The score was 8-0 when Detroit finally got something going. They scored 3 in the 8th, chasing Palmer, and 2 in the 9th on a Bill Freehan 2-run shot. But it was all too little too late as Baltimore came away with a 8-5 victory.
BOXSCORE: 1973 Baltimore Orioles At 1973 Detroit Tigers 4/11/1973
Orioles AB R H RBI AVG Tigers AB R H RBI AVG
M.Rettenmund RF 3 2 2 1 .417 D.McAuliffe 2B 4 1 1 0 .308
B.Grich 2B 3 1 2 0 .455 M.Stanley CF 4 0 1 2 .231
B.Powell 1B 5 0 0 0 .167 J.Northrup LF 3 0 1 1 .231
E.Williams C 5 1 2 1 .308 N.Cash 1B 4 0 0 0 .182
D.Baylor LF 4 1 1 2 .083 A.Kaline RF 4 0 0 0 .083
B.Robinson 3B 5 2 4 2 .455 G.Brown DH 3 1 0 0 .182
P.Blair CF 5 0 1 2 .182 B.Freehan C 3 1 1 2 .400
T.Davis DH 4 0 2 0 .500 A.Rodriguez 3B 3 1 0 0 .182
M.Belanger SS 4 1 1 0 .200 E.Brinkman SS 4 1 2 0 .500
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Totals 38 8 15 8 Totals 32 5 6 5
Orioles......... 0 1 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 - 8 15 1
Tigers.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 - 5 6 1
Orioles (2-1) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
J.Palmer WIN(1-0) 7 1/3 4 3 3 2 7 0 3.68
O.Pena 1 2/3 2 2 2 1 0 1 10.80
Totals 9 6 5 5 3 7 1
Tigers (2-1) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
W.Fryman LOSS(0-1) 4 1/3 11 6 3 2 3 1 6.23
T.Timmermann 2 2/3 3 2 2 0 0 2 6.75
L.Lagrow 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0.00
Totals 9 15 8 5 4 3 3
ATTENDANCE- 52,080 DATE- Wednesday, April 11th 1973 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
T- 3:10
LEFT ON BASE- Orioles: 8 Tigers: 4
DOUBLE PLAYS- Orioles: 1 Tigers: 3
ERRORS- M.Belanger, N.Cash
DOUBLES- P.Blair(1st), M.Stanley(1st)
HOME RUNS- M.Rettenmund(2nd), B.Robinson-2(2nd), B.Freehan(1st)
RBIs- M.Rettenmund(3rd), E.Williams(3rd), D.Baylor-2(2nd), B.Robinson-2(2nd),
P.Blair-2(3rd), M.Stanley-2(4th), J.Northrup(2nd), B.Freehan-2(4th)
CAUGHT STEALING- B.Robinson, M.Belanger
WALKS- M.Rettenmund-2, B.Grich-2, J.Northrup, G.Brown, A.Rodriguez
HIT BY PITCH- D.Baylor, B.Freehan
STRIKE OUTS- B.Powell-2, P.Blair, D.McAuliffe-2, M.Stanley, A.Kaline-2,
A.Rodriguez-2
GIDP- D.Baylor, P.Blair, N.Cash
2-out RBI- P.Blair-2, B.Robinson
RLISP 2-out- M.Rettenmund, M.Stanley, B.Robinson, T.Davis, B.Powell, N.Cash
TEAM RISP- Orioles: 4 for 12 Tigers: 3 for 6
Third baseman Brooks Robinson rocketed 2 homeruns as the Baltimore Orioles
topped the Detroit Tigers by a score of 8 to 5 at Tiger Stadium.
Robinson provided the offensive punch. He smashed a solo-shot out of the park
in the 2nd inning, laced a base-hit in the 4th inning, lofted a solo-blast
'downtown' in the 7th inning and slapped a single in the 9th inning. For the
game Baltimore out-hit Detroit 15 to 6.
Jim Palmer(1-0) got credit for the victory, pitching 7 and 1/3 innings and
allowing 3 runs. Woodie Fryman(0-1) was tagged with the loss. He was knocked
around by Baltimore, allowing 11 hits and 2 walks in 4 and 1/3 innings.
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