Chicago White Sox vs Toronto Blue Jays
May 20, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1981 at Exhibition Stadium. 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)
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Chicago White Sox 6, Toronto Blue Jays 5

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 3 2 0 0
Squires 1b 4 0 1 0
Fisk c 5 1 4 1
Luzinski dh 4 1 1 1
Baines rf 5 1 3 1
Lemon cf 4 1 1 1
Bernazard 2b 4 0 0 0
Morrison 3b 5 0 0 0
Almon ss 4 0 1 2
Dotson p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
  Hoyt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 11 6
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 4 2 1 0
Garcia 2b 4 1 2 2
Velez dh 4 0 0 1
Mayberry 1b 4 2 1 0
Woods lf 4 0 0 0
Moseby rf 4 0 4 1
Bonnell cf 4 0 1 1
Ainge 3b 2 0 0 0
  Upshaw ph 1 0 0 0
  Iorg 3b 1 0 1 0
Martinez c 3 0 0 0
  Whitt ph,c 1 0 0 0
Todd p 0 0 0 0
  Willis p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  McLaughlin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 10 5
Chicago 203 000 0106110
Toronto 011 001 2005103
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Dotson   6.1 7 4 4 1 1
  Farmer  W (1-2) 1.1 3 1 1 0 2
  Hoyt  SV (5) 1.1 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
10
5
5
2
5
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Todd   2.1 5 5 3 2 2
  Willis   0.2 3 0 0 2 1
  Jackson   3.0 2 0 0 0 2
  McLaughlin  L (0-2) 3.0 1 1 0 0 4
Totals
9.0
11
6
3
4
9

  E–Griffin 2 (12), Woods (2).  DP–Toronto 1.  2B–Chicago Lemon (7,off Todd); Fisk (5,off Todd), Toronto Iorg (3,off Farmer).  3B–Toronto Mayberry (1,off Dotson); Griffin (5,off Dotson).  HR–Toronto Garcia (1,7th inning off Farmer 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Squires (3,off Todd).  HBP–Lemon (6,by Todd); Mayberry (5,by Dotson).  IBB–Bernazard (3,by Todd).  SF–Velez (1,off Dotson).  SB–LeFlore 2 (11,2nd base off Todd/Martinez,2nd base off McLaughlin/Martinez); Baines (4,2nd base off Todd/Martinez); Moseby (5,2nd base off Dotson/Fisk); Griffin (4,3rd base off Dotson/Fisk); Garcia (8,2nd base off Dotson/Fisk).  HBP–Dotson (1,Mayberry); Todd (1,Lemon).  IBB–Todd (1,Bernazard).  U-HP–Bill Haller, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–George Maloney, 3B–Ken Kaiser.  T–3:25.  A–12,536.
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