Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers
April 26, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 26, 1981 at Tiger Stadium. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 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 5, Detroit Tigers 4

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Almon ss 4 0 1 0
Bernazard 2b 3 0 0 0
Nordhagen lf 2 0 0 0
  Kuntz ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Luzinski dh 3 2 1 0
Johnson 1b 4 2 2 0
  Squires 1b 0 0 0 0
Lemon cf 3 1 2 0
Baines rf 4 0 0 0
Essian c 2 0 0 0
  Fisk ph,3b 1 0 1 1
Pryor 3b 2 0 0 0
  Molinaro ph 1 0 1 2
  Hill c 0 0 0 0
Burns p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 3
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Peters cf 4 0 2 0
Trammell ss 3 1 1 1
Kemp dh 4 0 1 0
  Gibson pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Parrish c 5 1 2 2
Wockenfuss 1b 2 1 2 0
  Brown pr 0 0 0 0
  Kelleher 3b 0 0 0 0
  Hebner ph 1 0 0 0
Cowens rf 2 0 1 0
Jones lf 2 0 0 0
Papi 3b,1b 3 0 0 1
Whitaker 2b 4 1 1 0
Wilcox p 0 0 0 0
  Saucier p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 10 4
Chicago 020 000 300580
Detroit 100 111 0004102
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burns  W (2-0) 8.0 9 4 4 4 2
  Farmer  SV (3) 1.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
5
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Wilcox  L (2-2) 6.0 5 5 4 2 5
  Saucier   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Lopez   2.2 3 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
5
4
2
7

  E–Cowens (1), Wilcox (1).  DP–Detroit 1.  2B–Detroit Trammell (2,off Burns); Cowens (3,off Burns).  3B–Chicago Molinaro (1,off Lopez).  HR–Detroit Parrish (2,4th inning off Burns 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Fisk (1,off Lopez); Trammell (1,off Burns); Papi (1,off Burns).  HBP–Lemon (4,by Wilcox).  SH–Cowens 2 (2,off Burns 2); Peters (4,off Burns); Trammell (3,off Farmer).  CS–Almon (2,2nd base by Wilcox/Parrish); Peters (2,2nd base by Burns/Essian).  BK–Burns (1).  HBP–Wilcox (2,Lemon).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Durwood Merrill, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Jerry Neudecker.  T–2:45.  A–13,410.
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