Chicago White Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
April 7, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 7, 1979 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 3, Baltimore Orioles 6

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Chappas ss 4 0 0 0
  Nordhagen ph 1 0 0 0
Washington rf 3 0 0 0
Lemon cf 4 0 1 0
Johnson 1b 3 1 2 0
  Squires pr,1b 1 1 0 0
Orta dh 3 0 0 0
Bannister 2b 3 1 2 1
  Pryor 2b 1 0 0 0
Moore lf 2 0 2 2
Soderholm 3b 2 0 0 0
Nahorodny c 4 0 0 0
Proly p 0 0 0 0
  LaGrow p 0 0 0 0
  Torrealba p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 7 3
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 4 0 1 2
Belanger ss 3 0 1 0
Singleton rf 4 0 0 0
Murray 1b 4 1 1 0
DeCinces 3b 2 0 0 0
May dh 4 2 1 0
Roenicke lf 2 1 1 1
  Lowenstein pr,lf 1 1 0 0
Dauer 2b 4 0 1 1
Dempsey c 4 1 2 2
Flanagan p 0 0 0 0
  Stewart p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 8 6
Chicago 000 102 000371
Baltimore 000 024 00x680
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Proly  L (0-1) 5.0 3 4 4 3 3
  LaGrow   0.2 3 2 2 0 0
  Torrealba   2.1 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
6
6
3
4
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Flanagan  W (1-0) 6.0 7 3 3 3 2
  Stewart  SV (1) 3.0 0 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
5
5

  E–Chappas (1).  DP–Chicago 2, Baltimore 1.  PB–Nahorodny (1).  2B–Chicago Lemon (1,off Flanagan); Bannister (1,off Flanagan); Johnson (1,off Flanagan), Baltimore Murray (1,off Proly); Dempsey (1,off LaGrow).  SF–Moore (1,off Flanagan).  HBP–DeCinces (1,by Proly); Roenicke (1,by LaGrow).  SB–Bannister (2,2nd base off Flanagan/Dempsey); Belanger (1,2nd base off Proly/Nahorodny).  HBP–Proly (1,DeCinces); LaGrow (1,Roenicke).  U-HP–Bob Roesner, 1B–Jim O'Connor, 2B–Dallas Parks, 3B–Wayne Keister.  T–2:34.  A–5,268.
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