Chicago White Sox vs Toronto Blue Jays
August 9, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1978 at Exhibition Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Chicago White Sox 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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Chicago White Sox 0, Toronto Blue Jays 8

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Molinaro dh 4 0 0 0
Bosley cf 3 0 0 0
Orta 2b 4 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 3 0 1 0
  Colbern c 1 0 0 0
Garr lf 3 0 1 0
Soderholm 3b 3 0 0 0
Washington rf 2 0 0 0
Nahorodny c,1b 3 0 1 0
Kessinger ss 3 0 0 0
Stone p 0 0 0 0
  Hinton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 3 0
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Bailor rf,cf 3 0 0 0
Woods lf 3 0 0 1
Howell 3b 4 0 1 0
Carty dh 4 2 3 0
Mayberry 1b 3 2 1 1
Upshaw cf 2 1 1 1
  Velez rf 1 0 0 0
Ashby c 3 1 0 1
McKay 2b 3 1 2 2
Gomez ss 3 1 1 1
Jefferson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 8 9 7
Chicago 000 000 000031
Toronto 060 002 00x891
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Stone  L (9-8) 5.1 7 8 7 2 1
  Hinton   2.2 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
8
7
2
1
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Jefferson  W (7-9) 9.0 3 0 0 3 5
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
3
5

  E–Kessinger (9), Howell (15).  DP–Chicago 1, Toronto 1.  2B–Toronto Carty 3 (16,off Stone 3); Howell (23,off Hinton).  3B–Toronto Mayberry (2,off Stone).  SH–Soderholm (2,off Jefferson); Bailor (8,off Stone).  IBB–Washington (2,by Jefferson).  SF–A Woods (2,off Stone); Upshaw (3,off Stone).  IBB–Jefferson (3,Washington).  U-HP–Ted Hendry, 1B–Greg Kosc, 2B–Jerry Neudecker, 3B–George Maloney.  T–2:04.  A–24,282.
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