Cleveland Indians vs Chicago White Sox
June 12, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 12, 1978 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 0, Chicago White Sox 1

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Bell 3b 4 0 1 0
Veryzer ss 4 0 2 0
Thornton 1b 2 0 0 0
Horton dh 4 0 1 0
Vail rf 3 0 0 0
  Norris rf 1 0 0 0
Grubb lf 3 0 0 0
Blanks 2b 4 0 2 0
Pruitt c 2 0 0 0
  Manning ph 1 0 0 0
Speed cf 3 0 0 0
Waits p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 6 0
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Garr lf 4 1 1 0
Bannister cf 2 0 0 0
  Cruz cf 1 0 0 0
Lemon dh 2 0 0 0
Nordhagen rf 2 0 1 1
Johnson 1b 3 0 1 0
Nahorodny c 3 0 1 0
Orta 2b 2 0 0 0
Kessinger ss 3 0 0 0
Soderholm 3b 3 0 0 0
Kravec p 0 0 0 0
  Willoughby p 0 0 0 0
Totals 25 1 4 1
Cleveland 000 000 000063
Chicago 100 000 00x141
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Waits  L (3-7) 8.0 4 1 0 2 1
Totals
8.0
4
1
0
2
1
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Kravec  W (5-4) 7.0 4 0 0 4 5
  Willoughby  SV (6) 2.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
4
6

  E–Bell 2 (6), Veryzer (5), Orta (3).  DP–Chicago 2.  2B–Cleveland Blanks (8,off Kravec); Bell (14,off Kravec).  SH–Lemon (3,off Waits).  SF–Nordhagen (2,off Waits).  CS–Thornton (3,2nd base by Kravec/Nahorodny); Pruitt (1,2nd base by Kravec/Nahorodny); Bannister (2,2nd base by Waits/Pruitt).  SB–Orta (1,2nd base off Waits/Pruitt).  U-HP–Durwood Merrill, 1B–Marty Springstead, 2B–Larry Barnett, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:10.  A–17,373.
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