Baltimore Orioles vs Detroit Tigers
May 20, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1970 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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 0, Detroit Tigers 4

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Buford lf 4 0 0 0
Belanger ss 4 0 0 0
Robinson F. rf 4 0 0 0
Powell 1b 3 0 2 0
Blair cf 3 0 0 0
Robinson B. 3b 3 0 0 0
Johnson 2b 3 0 1 0
Etchebarren c 3 0 0 0
Phoebus p 2 0 0 0
  Motton ph 1 0 0 0
  Richert p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 3 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
McAuliffe 2b 1 1 0 0
Gutierrez ss 3 0 1 0
Kaline rf 3 1 2 1
Cash 1b 3 0 0 0
  Stanley ph,cf 1 0 0 0
Horton lf 4 1 1 1
  Jones 1b 0 0 0 0
Northrup cf,lf 4 1 1 2
Freehan c 4 0 0 0
Wert 3b 3 0 0 0
Lolich p 3 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 5 4
Baltimore 000 000 000031
Detroit 000 002 02x450
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Phoebus  L (3-2) 7.0 3 2 2 4 6
  Richert   1.0 2 2 2 0 1
Totals
8.0
5
4
4
4
7
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lolich  W (5-4) 9.0 3 0 0 0 9
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
0
9

  E–Buford (1).  HR–Detroit Northrup (4,8th inning off Richert 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Gutierrez (4,off Phoebus).  IBB–McAuliffe (3,by Phoebus).  SB–McAuliffe (3,2nd base off Phoebus/Etchebarren).  IBB–Phoebus (2,McAuliffe).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Bill Kunkel, 2B–Bill Haller, 3B–Jim Odom.  T–2:16.  A–17,586.
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