Chicago White Sox vs Kansas City Royals
July 21, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 21, 1980 at Royals Stadium. The Kansas City Royals 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 1, Kansas City Royals 2

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Molinaro dh 4 1 2 0
Morrison 2b 3 0 0 0
Johnson L. 1b 4 0 0 0
Nordhagen lf 4 0 1 1
Lemon cf 4 0 1 0
Baines rf 4 0 0 0
Bell 3b 2 0 0 0
  Johnson R. ph 1 0 1 0
Seilheimer c 3 0 0 0
  Squires ph 1 0 0 0
Pryor ss 3 0 1 0
Burns p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 6 1
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Washington ss 3 0 0 0
White 2b 4 0 2 1
Brett 3b 3 0 2 0
McRae dh 4 0 0 0
Wathan lf,c 4 0 0 0
Aikens 1b 4 0 0 0
  LaCock 1b 0 0 0 0
Porter c 2 1 1 0
  Wilson cf 1 1 1 0
Hurdle rf 2 0 1 1
Torres cf,lf 3 0 0 0
Leonard p 0 0 0 0
  Quisenberry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 7 2
Chicago 000 001 000161
Kansas City 010 000 10x271
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burns  L (10-8) 6.2 6 2 2 3 1
  Farmer   1.1 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
7
2
2
3
2
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Leonard  W (10-7) 7.1 5 1 1 1 5
  Quisenberry  SV (20) 1.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
5

  E–Nordhagen (1), White (8).  DP–Chicago 1.  PB–Seilheimer (1).  2B–Kansas City Hurdle (19,off Burns).  3B–Kansas City Porter (2,off Burns).  SH–Morrison (5,off Leonard).  SB–Molinaro (13,2nd base off Leonard/Wathan).  U-HP–John Shulock, 1B–Bill Kunkel, 2B–Dan Morrison, 3B–Ted Hendry.  T–2:34.  A–37,054.
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