California Angels vs Baltimore Orioles
August 31, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1969 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the California Angels 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

California Angels 4, Baltimore Orioles 5

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Alomar 2b 5 1 3 0
Johnstone cf 5 0 1 0
Fregosi ss 5 0 2 2
Reichardt lf 3 0 1 1
Morton rf 4 1 1 1
Cowan 1b 4 0 1 0
Rodriguez 3b 2 0 0 0
  Llenas 3b 2 0 0 0
Azcue c 4 1 2 0
May p 0 0 0 0
  Fisher p 1 0 0 0
  Hicks ph 0 1 0 0
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
  Repoz ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 11 4
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Buford lf 5 2 3 1
Rettenmund cf 5 1 2 0
Robinson F. rf 3 0 2 1
Powell 1b 4 0 2 2
Robinson B. 3b 4 0 1 1
Johnson 2b 4 0 0 0
Etchebarren c 3 1 1 0
  Hendricks ph,c 1 0 1 0
Belanger ss 3 1 0 0
Cuellar p 3 0 0 0
  Hall p 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 12 5
California 010 000 3004111
Baltimore 230 000 00x5120
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
May  L (6-11) 1.2 7 5 2 1 1
  Fisher   4.1 4 0 0 1 3
  Wilhelm   2.0 1 0 0 0 4
Totals
8.0
12
5
2
2
8
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Cuellar  W (19-10) 6.1 10 4 4 1 4
  Hall  SV (5) 2.2 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
1
6

  E–Alomar (19).  DP–California 1.  2B–California Reichardt (10,off Cuellar).  HR–California Morton (7,2nd inning off Cuellar 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Fisher (2,off Cuellar).  SF–Reichardt (6,off Hall).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Jim Odom, 2B–Larry Barnett, 3B–George Maloney.  T–2:33.  A–11,255.
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