Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
May 30, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 30, 1981 at Memorial Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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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Detroit Tigers 4, Baltimore Orioles 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Jones rf 5 0 1 1
Trammell ss 4 1 1 1
Kemp lf 3 0 1 0
Hebner 1b 2 0 0 0
Summers dh 3 0 1 1
Cowens cf 2 1 0 0
Fahey c 3 0 0 0
Brookens 3b 4 1 2 0
  Kelleher 3b 0 0 0 0
Whitaker 2b 3 1 0 0
Morris p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 6 3
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Dwyer cf 4 0 1 0
Dauer 2b 3 0 0 0
Singleton rf 3 0 0 0
  Belanger pr 0 0 0 0
Murray 1b 4 0 1 0
Lowenstein lf 4 1 1 1
Crowley dh 3 0 0 0
DeCinces 3b 3 0 0 0
Graham c 3 0 2 0
  Dempsey pr,c 0 0 0 0
Krenchicki ss 3 0 1 0
Palmer p 0 0 0 0
  Stewart p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 6 1
Detroit 110 000 002460
Baltimore 000 010 000161
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Morris  W (7-3) 9.0 6 1 1 2 3
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
3
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Palmer  L (3-3) 2.0 3 2 2 3 1
  Stewart   7.0 3 2 1 4 5
Totals
9.0
6
4
3
7
6

  E–Dempsey (1).  DP–Detroit 3, Baltimore 2.  PB–Fahey (1).  HR–Baltimore Lowenstein (2,5th inning off Morris 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Fahey (1,off Stewart).  SF–Summers (2,off Palmer).  IBB–Whitaker (2,by Stewart).  SB–Brookens (2,2nd base off Palmer/Graham); Trammell (1,2nd base off Palmer/Graham).  BK–Stewart (1).  IBB–Stewart (1,Whitaker).  U-HP–Jim McKean, 1B–Rich Garcia, 2B–Greg Kosc, 3B–Don Denkinger.  T–2:18.  A–51,646.
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