Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
June 23, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 23, 1979 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 5, Baltimore Orioles 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 3 0 1 1
  Jones cf 2 0 1 1
Staub dh 4 1 1 2
  Morales pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Kemp lf 4 0 1 0
Thompson 1b 3 0 0 0
Wockenfuss c 4 0 1 1
Summers rf 3 0 0 0
Mankowski 3b 4 0 1 0
Trammell ss 3 2 2 0
Machemer 2b 4 2 1 0
Billingham p 0 0 0 0
  Tobik p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 9 5
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 4 2 2 0
Garcia ss 5 2 3 2
Singleton dh 4 0 2 2
Murray 1b 3 0 1 1
Lowenstein rf 3 1 0 0
DeCinces 3b 3 0 0 0
  Dauer 3b 0 0 0 0
Kelly lf 3 0 1 0
  Roenicke lf 0 0 0 0
Krenchicki 2b 4 0 0 0
Dempsey c 2 1 0 0
  Crowley ph 1 0 1 1
  Skaggs c 0 0 0 0
Palmer p 0 0 0 0
  Stewart p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 10 6
Detroit 120 002 000592
Baltimore 100 020 21x6100
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Billingham  L (6-4) 7.0 9 6 5 5 2
  Tobik   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
10
6
5
6
3
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Palmer   5.1 9 5 5 4 6
  Stewart  W (4-2) 3.2 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
5
5
4
8

  E–Jones (2), Machemer (1).  DP–Detroit 3, Baltimore 2.  2B–Detroit Jones (3,off Palmer), Baltimore Bumbry (13,off Billingham).  HR–Baltimore Garcia (4,5th inning off Billingham 1 on, 1 out).  HBP–Staub (4,by Stewart).  IBB–Bumbry (1,by Tobik).  SB–Lowenstein (8,2nd base off Billingham/Wockenfuss).  HBP–Stewart (2,Staub).  IBB–Tobik (3,Bumbry).  U-HP–Greg Kosc, 1B–Jerry Neudecker, 2B–George Maloney, 3B–Bill Deegan.  T–2:37.  A–45,814.
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