Baltimore Orioles vs Detroit Tigers
August 31, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1968 at Tiger Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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)
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Baltimore Orioles 5, Detroit Tigers 1

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Buford 2b 4 0 0 0
  Belanger ss 1 0 0 0
Rettenmund rf 4 1 1 0
Robinson F. lf 3 1 2 1
Powell 1b 2 2 1 0
Robinson B. 3b 4 0 0 0
Johnson ss,2b 4 0 0 0
Blair cf 4 1 2 4
Haney c 4 0 0 0
McNally p 4 0 1 0
Totals 34 5 7 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 4 1 1 0
Stanley cf 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 3 0 2 1
  Northrup pr,rf 1 0 0 0
Horton lf 2 0 0 0
Freehan 1b 4 0 1 0
Price c 3 0 1 0
Tracewski ss 4 0 1 0
Wert 3b 4 0 0 0
Hiller p 1 0 0 0
  Dobson p 0 0 0 0
  Wilson ph 1 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Comer ph 1 0 0 0
  McMahon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1
Baltimore 010 300 100571
Detroit 000 001 000160
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
McNally  W (18-8) 9.0 6 1 1 3 9
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
3
9
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Hiller  L (6-5) 3.2 3 4 4 2 3
  Dobson   1.1 2 0 0 1 1
  Patterson   2.0 2 1 1 1 1
  McMahon   2.0 0 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
4
8

  E–Buford (7).  DP–Baltimore 1.  2B–Baltimore F Robinson (22,off Hiller); Powell (20,off Patterson).  3B–Baltimore Blair (1,off Hiller), Detroit McAuliffe (10,off McNally).  HR–Baltimore Blair (6,4th inning off Hiller 2 on, 2 out).  WP–McNally (3), Patterson (3).  U-HP–Jim Odom, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Cal Drummond.  T–2:43.  A–28,974.
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