Toronto Blue Jays vs Chicago White Sox
August 21, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1980 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 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

Toronto Blue Jays 3, Chicago White Sox 5

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 3 0 1 1
Bailor rf 3 0 1 0
Garcia 2b 4 0 0 0
Velez dh 4 0 0 0
Howell 3b 3 0 1 0
Ault 1b 3 0 0 0
  Braun ph 1 0 0 0
  Iorg 1b 0 0 0 0
Moseby lf 2 1 0 0
Ainge cf 4 1 1 1
Whitt c 3 1 0 0
Jefferson p 0 0 0 0
  McLaughlin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 4 2
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Sutherland cf 4 1 1 0
Squires 1b 4 1 2 0
Molinaro lf 4 0 0 0
Johnson dh 2 1 1 0
Morrison 2b 2 0 2 3
Baines rf 4 0 1 0
Borgmann c 3 1 0 0
Bell 3b 3 1 1 1
Cruz ss 3 0 1 1
Hoyt p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 5 9 5
Toronto 001 000 200340
Chicago 000 140 00x590
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Jefferson  L (4-11) 4.2 6 5 5 3 1
  McLaughlin   3.1 3 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
4
3
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Hoyt  W (5-2) 6.2 3 3 3 5 8
  Farmer  SV (21) 2.1 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
4
3
3
5
10

  E–None.  DP–Toronto 1, Chicago 1.  PB–Borgmann (2).  2B–Toronto Ainge (5,off Hoyt); Griffin (20,off Hoyt), Chicago Morrison (35,off Jefferson).  3B–Toronto Howell (6,off Farmer), Chicago Bell (2,off Jefferson).  SH–Griffin (8,off Hoyt); Morrison (6,off Jefferson).  SF–Cruz (1,off Jefferson).  HBP–Morrison (7,by McLaughlin).  IBB–Bell (1,by McLaughlin).  SB–L Johnson (1,2nd base off Jefferson/Whitt); Sutherland (3,3rd base off Jefferson/Whitt); Squires (5,2nd base off Jefferson/Whitt).  CS–Molinaro (5,2nd base by Jefferson/Whitt).  HBP–McLaughlin (3,Morrison).  IBB–McLaughlin (11,Bell).  U-HP–Marty Springstead, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Derryl Cousins.  T–2:18.  A–15,303.
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