Baltimore Orioles vs Seattle Mariners
August 16, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 16, 1978 at Kingdome. The Seattle Mariners 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 5, Seattle Mariners 7

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Harlow cf 4 1 2 0
Dempsey c 2 1 0 0
Kelly lf 5 2 2 4
Singleton rf 3 0 1 0
  Lopez pr 0 0 0 0
Murray 1b 4 0 1 1
DeCinces 3b 5 0 0 0
Crowley dh 4 0 0 0
Dauer 2b 4 0 1 0
Belanger ss 3 1 0 0
Flanagan p 0 0 0 0
  Briles p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 7 5
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Cruz 2b 5 1 1 0
Reynolds ss 4 1 2 0
Paciorek lf 3 1 1 0
Roberts rf 4 2 2 5
Robertson 1b 3 0 0 0
  Meyer 1b 0 0 0 0
Stanton dh 4 2 2 0
Jones cf 4 0 1 1
Milbourne 3b 4 0 2 1
Plummer c 3 0 0 0
McLaughlin p 0 0 0 0
  Romo p 0 0 0 0
  Todd p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 7 11 7
Baltimore 002 000 201570
Seattle 210 031 00x7110
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Flanagan  L (15-11) 4.2 8 6 6 1 2
  Briles   3.1 3 1 1 2 1
Totals
8.0
11
7
7
3
3
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
McLaughlin  W (1-4) 6.2 5 4 4 6 9
  Romo   1.2 2 1 1 2 1
  Todd  SV (3) 0.2 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
9
11

  E–None.  DP–Baltimore 1.  2B–Baltimore Harlow (18,off Romo), Seattle Stanton (9,off Flanagan); Ruppert Jones (15,off Briles).  HR–Baltimore Kelly 2 (6,3rd inning off McLaughlin 1 on, 1 out,7th inning off McLaughlin 1 on, 2 out), Seattle Roberts 2 (20,1st inning off Flanagan 1 on, 2 out,5th inning off Flanagan 2 on, 2 out).  SB–Milbourne (3,2nd base off Flanagan/Dempsey).  WP–Briles (2), Romo (2).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Bill Kunkel, 2B–Bill Deegan, 3B–Terry Cooney.  T–2:47.  A–6,619.
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