Washington Senators vs Chicago White Sox
August 5, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 5, 1969 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Washington Senators 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

Washington Senators 4, Chicago White Sox 11

Washington Senators ab   r   h rbi
Unser cf 5 0 1 0
Maye rf 5 0 1 0
Howard lf 5 1 1 0
Epstein 1b 3 1 2 0
McMullen 3b 4 1 2 1
Allen 2b 4 1 2 2
Brinkman ss 3 0 1 0
  Hannan p 0 0 0 0
  Alyea ph 1 0 0 0
  Miles p 0 0 0 0
French c 4 0 2 1
Shellenback p 1 0 0 0
  Cox p 0 0 0 0
  Stroud ph 1 0 0 0
  Baldwin p 0 0 0 0
  Versalles ph,ss 2 0 1 0
Totals 38 4 13 4
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Williams lf 5 0 0 0
Aparicio ss 3 3 1 0
Hopkins 1b 5 3 4 0
Melton 3b 3 3 3 4
May rf 4 1 1 1
Pavletich c 4 1 2 1
  Brinkman c 0 0 0 0
Hansen 2b 4 0 3 5
Held cf 4 0 1 0
Wynne p 4 0 0 0
  Wood p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 11 15 11
Washington 100 100 0204130
Chicago 204 112 01x11150
  Washington Senators IP H R ER BB SO
Shellenback  L (4-6) 2.0 5 4 4 2 0
  Cox   1.0 3 2 2 1 1
  Baldwin   3.0 6 4 4 2 2
  Hannan   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Miles   1.0 1 1 1 0 2
Totals
8.0
15
11
11
5
5
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wynne  W (4-2) 8.0 12 4 4 1 3
  Wood  SV (8) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
13
4
4
1
3

  E–None.  DP–Washington 2.  2B–Washington Brinkman (15,off Wynne); B Allen (10,off Wynne); Unser (12,off Wynne); McMullen (15,off Wynne); French (5,off Wynne), Chicago Melton (18,off Cox); Pavletich (11,off Baldwin).  HR–Chicago Melton (16,8th inning off Miles 0 on, 1 out).  SF–Melton (4,off Baldwin).  IBB–May (6,by Cox).  IBB–Cox (7,May).  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Bill Kunkel.  T–2:32.  A–7,949.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook