Cleveland Indians vs Chicago White Sox
August 31, 1976 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1976 at Comiskey Park I. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Chicago White Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Cleveland Indians 4, Chicago White Sox 2

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Kuiper 2b 5 1 4 1
Blanks ss 5 1 1 0
Lowenstein cf 3 0 1 0
  Pruitt ph,lf 0 1 0 0
Carty dh 4 0 1 1
  Robinson pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Powell 1b 3 0 1 1
Hendrick lf,cf 4 0 0 1
Bell 3b 5 0 1 0
Smith rf 4 0 0 0
Fosse c 4 1 1 0
Waits p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
  LaRoche p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 4 10 4
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Hairston rf 3 1 0 0
Orta lf 5 1 3 0
Johnson L. dh 4 0 2 0
  Garr pr,dh 1 0 0 0
Spencer 1b 4 0 1 1
Downing c 5 0 2 1
Stein 3b 5 0 0 0
Lemon cf 4 0 1 0
Brohamer 2b 4 0 1 0
  Bannister pr,2b 0 0 0 0
Dent ss 4 0 1 0
Johnson B. p 0 0 0 0
  Hamilton p 0 0 0 0
  Vuckovich p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 2 11 2
Cleveland 000 010 000 34101
Chicago 000 000 010 12110
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Waits   7.1 8 1 1 2 4
  Kern  W (9-7) 1.2 2 1 1 1 1
  LaRoche  SV (15) 1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
10.0
11
2
2
3
7
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson   9.0 7 1 1 3 4
  Hamilton  L (6-6) 0.1 3 3 3 2 0
  Vuckovich   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
10
4
4
5
5

  E–Bell (18).  DP–Cleveland 2, Chicago 2.  2B–Chicago Orta 2 (26,off Waits 2); Lemon (10,off Waits).  SF–Hendrick (6,off Vuckovich).  SB–Fosse (1,2nd base off B Johnson/Downing); Lowenstein (8,2nd base off B Johnson/Downing).  CS–Kuiper (15,2nd base by B Johnson/Downing); Hairston (1,2nd base by Waits/Fosse); Dent (4,2nd base by Kern/Fosse).  U-HP–Russ Goetz, 1B–George Maloney, 2B–Jim McKean, 3B–Nick Bremigan.  T–3:11.  A–10,852.
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