Baltimore Orioles vs Chicago White Sox
May 2, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 2, 1973 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox 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, Chicago White Sox 4

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Rettenmund rf 4 0 2 0
Grich 2b 2 0 0 0
Davis dh 4 0 0 0
Williams c 4 0 0 0
Baylor lf 4 0 2 0
Robinson 3b 4 0 0 0
Powell 1b 3 0 0 0
Blair cf 3 0 1 0
Belanger ss 3 0 1 0
Palmer p 0 0 0 0
  Pena p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 6 0
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Kelly rf 2 1 1 1
May lf 2 0 0 1
Allen 1b 3 1 0 0
  Muser 1b 0 0 0 0
Melton 3b 3 0 0 0
Henderson cf 4 0 2 1
Andrews dh 3 0 0 0
  Jeter pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Herrmann c 4 1 2 0
Orta 2b 2 1 1 1
Leon ss 3 0 0 0
Wood p 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 4 6 4
Baltimore 000 000 000062
Chicago 100 001 20x461
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Palmer  L (1-2) 6.0 5 4 3 4 6
  Pena   2.0 1 0 0 2 3
Totals
8.0
6
4
3
6
9
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wood  W (6-2) 9.0 6 0 0 2 4
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
2
4

  E–Williams 2 (2), D Allen (2).  DP–Chicago 1.  2B–Chicago Henderson (5,off Palmer); Herrmann (1,off Palmer).  3B–Chicago Kelly (1,off Palmer).  SH–Grich (2,off Wood).  SF–May (1,off Palmer); Kelly (1,off Pena).  SB–Belanger (4,2nd base off Wood/Herrmann); D Allen (2,2nd base off Palmer/Williams); Orta (2,2nd base off Pena/Williams).  CS–Kelly (3,2nd base by Palmer/Williams); Henderson (2,2nd base by Pena/Williams).  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–George Maloney, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:23.  A–7,313.
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