Toronto Blue Jays vs Chicago White Sox
August 11, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 11, 1979 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 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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Toronto Blue Jays 1, Chicago White Sox 6

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 4 1 2 0
Bailor rf 3 0 2 0
Howell 3b 4 0 1 1
Carty dh 4 0 0 0
Velez lf 4 0 2 0
Bosetti cf 3 0 0 0
Kusick 1b 3 0 1 0
Cerone c 4 0 0 0
Ainge 2b 4 0 1 0
Todd p 0 0 0 0
  Freisleben p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 9 1
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Squires 1b 3 3 2 0
Bannister lf 4 0 0 0
Orta 2b 2 1 1 3
  Bell 3b 1 0 0 0
Johnson dh 4 0 2 2
Lemon cf 4 0 0 0
Washington rf 3 0 0 0
Pryor ss 2 1 1 1
May c 3 0 0 0
Morrison 3b,2b 2 1 0 0
Kravec p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 6 6 6
Toronto 100 000 000190
Chicago 110 002 02x661
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Todd  L (0-1) 7.0 4 5 5 2 3
  Freisleben   1.0 2 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
6
6
6
2
4
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Kravec  W (11-10) 7.1 8 1 1 1 5
  Farmer  SV (8) 1.2 1 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
3
6

  E–Orta (3).  DP–Toronto 1, Chicago 3.  2B–Toronto Griffin (16,off Kravec).  HR–Chicago Pryor (2,2nd inning off Todd 0 on, 2 out); Orta (9,6th inning off Todd 1 on, 2 out).  SF–Orta (4,off Todd).  HBP–Squires (2,by Todd).  CS–Bailor (7,2nd base by Kravec/May).  WP–Todd (1).  HBP–Todd (1,Squires).  U-HP–Larry Barnett, 1B–Fred Spenn, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Ted Hendry.  T–2:19.
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