Chicago White Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
August 16, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 16, 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 8, Baltimore Orioles 7

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 5 1 1 1
Squires 1b 4 0 1 0
  Johnson ph,1b 0 1 0 0
Fisk c 5 1 3 1
Luzinski dh 4 1 0 0
Baines rf 5 2 2 0
Lemon cf 4 0 2 1
Bernazard 2b 4 1 2 2
Morrison 3b 2 0 0 1
  Molinaro ph 1 1 1 0
  Pryor 3b 1 0 0 0
Almon ss 4 0 1 1
Baumgarten p 0 0 0 0
  Lamp p 0 0 0 0
  McGlothen p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
  Hickey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 8 13 7
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 4 2 1 0
Dauer 2b 6 0 0 0
Singleton rf 3 1 0 1
  Dwyer lf 1 1 0 0
Murray 1b 4 2 2 6
DeCinces 3b 4 0 2 0
Ayala dh 3 0 1 0
  Crowley ph,dh 2 0 1 0
Roenicke lf,rf 2 0 0 0
  Lowenstein ph,rf 0 0 0 0
Ripken, Jr. ss 3 0 1 0
  Belanger ss 1 0 0 0
  Graham ph,c 1 0 0 0
Dempsey c 4 1 1 0
  Morales ph 1 0 0 0
  Sakata ss 0 0 0 0
Palmer p 0 0 0 0
  Stoddard p 0 0 0 0
  Martinez p 0 0 0 0
  Ford p 0 0 0 0
  Schneider p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 7 9 7
Chicago 020 001 004 18131
Baltimore 004 100 002 0792
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Baumgarten   2.1 4 4 4 4 0
  Lamp   4.2 3 1 1 3 2
  McGlothen   1.0 0 1 1 1 1
  Farmer  W (2-2) 1.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Hickey  SV (2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.0
9
7
7
9
4
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Palmer   7.0 8 3 2 1 1
  Stoddard   1.2 2 3 3 1 2
  Martinez   0.0 0 1 0 1 0
  Ford  L (1-2) 0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Schneider   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.0
13
8
6
3
3

  E–Almon (12), Bumbry (1), Dauer (2).  DP–Baltimore 1.  2B–Chicago Lemon (13,off Palmer); Molinaro (1,off Stoddard); Baines (7,off Ford).  HR–Baltimore Murray 2 (12,3rd inning off Baumgarten 3 on, 1 out,9th inning off Farmer 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Lemon (5,off Schneider).  SF–Morrison (4,off Palmer).  IBB–Johnson (1,by T Martinez).  SB–LeFlore (19,2nd base off T Martinez/Dempsey); Bumbry (14,2nd base off Lamp/Fisk).  CS–Bernazard (2,2nd base by Schneider/Graham); Bumbry (8,2nd base by Baumgarten/Fisk).  IBB–T Martinez (2,Johnson).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Durwood Merrill, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Dallas Parks.  T–3:52.  A–16,684.
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