Baltimore Orioles vs Detroit Tigers
September 19, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 19, 1979 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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 0, Detroit Tigers 5

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 4 0 2 0
Chism c 1 0 0 0
  Skaggs c 1 0 0 0
  Lowenstein ph 1 0 0 0
  Hendricks c 1 0 0 0
Singleton rf 3 0 1 0
Murray 1b 2 0 1 0
May dh 4 0 0 0
Roenicke lf 3 0 0 0
Garcia ss 2 0 0 0
Dauer 3b 3 0 0 0
Krenchicki 2b 3 0 0 0
Martinez p 0 0 0 0
  Stoddard p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 4 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 0 1 1
Whitaker 2b 3 2 3 0
Kemp lf 4 1 1 1
Summers dh 3 0 1 1
Thompson 1b 4 0 0 0
Gibson rf 4 1 2 0
Parrish c 4 0 0 0
Peters 3b 2 0 0 0
  Rodriguez 3b 0 0 0 0
Trammell ss 2 1 0 0
Morris p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 8 3
Baltimore 000 000 000042
Detroit 101 011 10x580
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Martinez  L (15-15) 7.0 8 5 5 3 3
  Stoddard   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
3
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Morris  W (15-7) 9.0 4 0 0 3 7
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
3
7

  E–Hendricks (1), D Martinez (4).  DP–Detroit 3.  2B–Detroit Summers (11,off D Martinez); Kemp (26,off D Martinez).  3B–Detroit Whitaker (8,off D Martinez).  HBP–Garcia (2,by Morris).  SH–Whitaker (11,off D Martinez).  SB–Trammell (17,2nd base off D Martinez/Skaggs); Gibson 2 (2,2nd base off D Martinez/Hendricks,3rd base off D Martinez/Hendricks).  CS–Gibson (1,2nd base by D Martinez/Skaggs).  WP–Morris 2 (8).  HBP–Morris (4,Garcia).  U-HP–Dale Ford, 1B–Derryl Cousins, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–Mike Reilly.  T–2:18.  A–12,573.
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