Chicago White Sox vs Kansas City Royals
July 23, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 23, 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)
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Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City Royals 9

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Bosley lf 4 0 0 0
Morrison 2b 5 1 2 0
Johnson L. 1b 4 0 2 1
Nordhagen rf 4 0 1 0
Lemon cf 4 1 1 0
Pruitt dh 3 0 0 0
  Johnson R. ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Bell 3b 1 0 0 1
Kimm c 3 0 0 0
Pryor ss 3 0 2 0
Baumgarten p 0 0 0 0
  Kravec p 0 0 0 0
  Hoyt p 0 0 0 0
  Hoffman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 8 2
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 5 0 2 0
Washington ss 5 1 1 1
Brett 3b 5 2 2 1
McRae dh 5 1 2 0
Wathan lf 5 2 2 2
Porter c 3 2 2 1
Aikens 1b 3 1 2 2
  LaCock 1b 0 0 0 0
Hurdle rf 3 0 1 1
White 2b 3 0 1 1
  Mulliniks 2b 0 0 0 0
Gura p 0 0 0 0
  Martin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 9 15 9
Chicago 000 011 000280
Kansas City 110 142 00x9150
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Baumgarten  L (2-7) 1.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Kravec   3.1 7 6 6 2 1
  Hoyt   1.1 4 2 2 0 0
  Hoffman   2.1 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
15
9
9
2
1
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Gura  W (13-4) 7.0 8 2 2 3 7
  Martin   2.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
4
7

  E–None.  DP–Kansas City 1.  2B–Chicago Morrison (29,off Gura); Lemon (20,off Gura); L Johnson (16,off Gura), Kansas City McRae (24,off Kravec); Wathan (7,off Kravec); G Brett (21,off Hoyt); Wilson (19,off Hoffman).  HR–Kansas City Washington (5,1st inning off Baumgarten 0 on, 1 out); Aikens (11,2nd inning off Kravec 0 on, 1 out); G Brett (10,5th inning off Kravec 0 on, 1 out).  SF–Bell (1,off Gura); White (3,off Kravec); Hurdle (3,off Hoyt).  HBP–Pryor (2,by Martin).  CS–Bosley (2,2nd base by Gura/Porter).  SB–Wilson (43,2nd base off Kravec/Kimm); Wathan (9,2nd base off Hoffman/Kimm).  HBP–Martin (1,Pryor).  U-HP–Dan Morrison, 1B–Ted Hendry, 2B–John Shulock, 3B–Bill Kunkel.  T–2:45.  A–25,105.
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