Chicago White Sox vs Toronto Blue Jays
August 21, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1981 at Exhibition Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Chicago White Sox 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 4, Toronto Blue Jays 5

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 4 0 0 0
Squires 1b 4 1 1 0
Fisk c 3 1 1 0
Luzinski dh 4 0 0 0
Baines rf 4 1 2 1
Lemon cf 4 1 1 2
Bernazard 2b 4 0 1 1
Morrison 3b 2 0 0 0
Pryor ss 3 0 0 0
Baumgarten p 0 0 0 0
  Lamp p 0 0 0 0
  Hickey p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 6 4
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 5 0 0 0
Ainge 3b,cf 4 1 1 0
Moseby cf,rf 4 2 3 1
Wells dh 2 0 0 0
  Woods ph,dh 1 0 1 1
Mayberry 1b 4 0 1 0
Garcia 2b 3 0 1 0
  Iorg ph,2b 0 0 0 0
Bonnell lf 3 0 0 0
  Upshaw ph,lf 0 0 0 0
Bell rf 3 1 1 0
  Velez ph 0 0 0 1
  Macha 3b 0 0 0 0
Martinez c 4 1 1 2
Stieb p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 9 5
Chicago 000 400 000461
Toronto 000 021 011590
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Baumgarten   5.0 6 3 3 2 1
  Lamp   2.0 1 0 0 0 2
  Hickey   0.2 1 1 1 0 0
  Farmer  L (2-3) 1.0 1 1 1 3 0
Totals
8.2
9
5
5
5
3
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Stieb  W (6-8) 9.0 6 4 4 1 7
Totals
9.0
6
4
4
1
7

  E–Morrison (7).  DP–Chicago 2, Toronto 1.  2B–Chicago Bernazard (8,off Stieb).  3B–Chicago Lemon (6,off Stieb).  HR–Toronto Martinez (3,5th inning off Baumgarten 1 on, 2 out); Moseby (7,9th inning off Farmer 0 on, 2 out).  HBP–Fisk (11,by Stieb).  SH–Woods (7,off Hickey).  CS–Bernazard (3,3rd base by Stieb/Martinez).  HBP–Stieb (6,Fisk).  U-HP–Derryl Cousins, 1B–Marty Springstead, 2B–Joe Brinkman, 3B–Dale Ford.  T–2:36.  A–14,161.
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