Chicago White Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
August 15, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 15, 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)
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Chicago White Sox 1, Baltimore Orioles 2

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Morrison 2b 5 1 1 1
Pryor ss 5 0 1 0
Bannister lf,rf,lf,rf 5 0 1 0
Johnson 1b 5 0 1 0
Lemon dh 5 0 0 0
Moore rf,lf,rf,lf 4 0 1 0
Torres cf 3 0 0 0
May c 3 0 0 0
  Nahorodny ph,c 1 0 0 0
Bell 3b 3 0 0 0
Kravec p 0 0 0 0
  Hoffman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 1 5 1
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 5 0 1 0
Dauer 2b 5 0 0 0
Singleton rf 5 0 0 0
Murray 1b 5 1 1 0
May dh 4 0 0 0
DeCinces 3b 3 1 1 0
Roenicke lf 4 0 1 0
Dempsey c 2 0 0 1
  Ayala ph 0 0 0 0
Belanger ss 2 0 0 0
Flanagan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 4 1
Chicago 100 000 000 000150
Baltimore 000 010 000 001240
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Kravec   10.0 3 1 1 3 4
  Hoffman  L (0-3) 1.2 1 1 1 1 1
Totals
11.2
4
2
2
4
5
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Flanagan  W (16-7) 12.0 5 1 1 1 12
Totals
12.0
5
1
1
1
12

  E–None.  DP–Baltimore 2.  2B–Baltimore Roenicke (10,off Kravec).  HR–Chicago Morrison (6,1st inning off Flanagan 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Torres (7,off Flanagan); Belanger (9,off Kravec); Roenicke (1,off Kravec); May (2,off Hoffman).  SF–Dempsey (3,off Kravec).  IBB–DeCinces (5,by Hoffman).  SB–Johnson (6,2nd base off Flanagan/Dempsey); Murray (3,Home off Hoffman/Nahorodny).  WP–Flanagan (5).  IBB–Hoffman (3,DeCinces).  U-HP–Terry Cooney, 1B–Mike Reilly, 2B–Dan Morrison, 3B–Dale Ford.  T–2:54.  A–14,170.
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