Baltimore Orioles vs Chicago White Sox
April 12, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 12, 1980 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Baltimore Orioles 2, Chicago White Sox 8

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 3 0 1 0
Belanger ss 3 0 0 0
  Kelly ph 1 0 0 0
Singleton rf 4 0 1 0
Murray 1b 4 1 0 0
Lowenstein lf 4 1 1 0
DeCinces 3b 3 0 2 2
May dh 4 0 0 0
Dempsey c 3 0 0 0
Dauer 2b 3 0 0 0
Stone p 0 0 0 0
  Martinez p 0 0 0 0
  Kerrigan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 5 2
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Squires 1b 3 1 0 0
Bannister 3b 4 1 0 1
Molinaro lf 3 0 0 0
  Nordhagen ph 0 0 0 0
  Bosley ph,lf 2 1 1 2
Johnson dh 5 1 4 2
Lemon cf 4 0 2 1
Baines rf 3 1 0 0
Morrison 2b 3 1 1 0
Kimm c 4 1 2 2
Pryor ss 4 1 1 0
Dotson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 8 11 8
Baltimore 000 000 002251
Chicago 000 017 00x8110
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Stone  L (0-1) 5.0 7 3 3 1 1
  Martinez   0.2 1 4 4 3 0
  Kerrigan   2.1 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
8
8
4
2
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Dotson  W (1-0) 9.0 5 2 2 2 7
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
2
7

  E–Singleton (1).  2B–Baltimore Bumbry (2,off Dotson); DeCinces (1,off Dotson).  3B–Chicago Kimm (1,off T Martinez).  HR–Chicago L Johnson (2,6th inning off Stone 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Squires (1,off Stone).  IBB–Bannister (1,by T Martinez).  WP–T Martinez (1).  IBB–T Martinez (1,Bannister).  U-HP–Ken Kaiser, 1B–John Shulock, 2B–Bill Kunkel, 3B–Terry Cooney.  T–2:34.  A–15,060.
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