Chicago White Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
August 14, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 14, 1981 at Memorial Stadium. The Chicago White Sox 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 5, Baltimore Orioles 3

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 5 0 2 1
Squires 1b 4 0 1 1
Fisk c 3 0 0 0
Luzinski dh 4 0 0 0
Baines rf 4 0 1 0
Lemon cf 3 1 0 0
Bernazard 2b 1 3 1 0
Morrison 3b 3 1 2 2
Almon ss 4 0 1 1
Dotson p 0 0 0 0
  Trout p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 5
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 5 1 1 0
Dwyer rf 3 0 0 0
  Ayala ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Singleton dh 3 2 1 0
  Sakata pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Murray 1b 3 0 0 0
Lowenstein lf 2 0 0 0
  Roenicke ph,lf,rf 2 0 1 0
DeCinces 3b 4 0 1 2
Graham c 2 0 1 0
  Dempsey ph,c 2 0 0 0
Dauer 2b 3 0 0 0
Belanger ss 3 0 0 0
  Crowley ph 0 0 0 0
  Ripken, Jr. pr 0 0 0 0
Stewart p 0 0 0 0
  Martinez p 0 0 0 0
  Ford p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 5 2
Chicago 002 020 001584
Baltimore 100 101 000350
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Dotson  W (8-3) 5.0 3 2 0 0 4
  Trout   2.0 2 1 1 2 1
  Farmer  SV (9) 2.0 0 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
5
3
1
4
6
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Stewart  L (2-4) 7.0 6 4 4 2 1
  Martinez   1.1 2 1 1 2 1
  Ford   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
5
5
4
2

  E–Bernazard (4), Morrison 2 (6), Almon (11).  DP–Baltimore 1.  2B–Chicago Baines (6,off Stewart), Baltimore DeCinces (13,off Dotson); Singleton (12,off Trout).  HR–Chicago Morrison (5,3rd inning off Stewart 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Morrison (7,off Stewart).  HBP–Lemon (10,by Stewart).  SB–LeFlore (18,2nd base off Stewart/Graham); Bumbry (13,2nd base off Farmer/Fisk).  CS–LeFlore (7,2nd base by Stewart/Graham).  HBP–Stewart (2,Lemon).  U-HP–Dave Phillips, 1B–Dallas Parks, 2B–Larry McCoy, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–3:24.  A–15,401.
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