Chicago White Sox vs Seattle Mariners
September 16, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 16, 1981 at Kingdome. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Seattle Mariners 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 3, Seattle Mariners 1

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 4 0 1 0
Bernazard 2b 3 1 0 0
Baines rf 4 0 0 0
Luzinski dh 2 0 1 0
Fisk c 3 1 1 0
Lemon cf 3 1 1 2
Johnson 1b 4 0 1 1
  Loviglio pr 0 0 0 0
  Squires 1b 0 0 0 0
Morrison 3b 3 0 0 0
  Molinaro ph 1 0 0 0
  Pryor 3b 0 0 0 0
Almon ss 4 0 1 0
Burns p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 6 3
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Cruz 2b 4 0 0 0
Randle 3b 3 0 0 0
Paciorek cf 3 1 1 1
Zisk dh 4 0 1 0
  Allen pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Burroughs rf 4 0 0 0
Gray 1b 3 0 0 0
Bochte lf 2 0 0 0
Serna ss 2 0 0 0
  Maler ph 1 0 0 0
  Anderson ss 0 0 0 0
Bulling c 2 0 1 0
  Walton ph 1 0 0 0
  Firova c 0 0 0 0
Clay p 0 0 0 0
  Andersen p 0 0 0 0
  Drago p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 3 1
Chicago 000 001 002360
Seattle 000 001 000131
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burns  W (9-4) 9.0 3 1 1 3 9
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
3
9
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Clay   6.0 2 1 1 5 3
  Andersen   2.0 0 0 0 1 2
  Drago  L (4-6) 1.0 4 2 2 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
6
5

  E–Randle (5).  DP–Chicago 1, Seattle 1.  2B–Chicago Luzinski (14,off Clay); Lemon (22,off Drago), Seattle Bulling (2,off Burns).  HR–Seattle Paciorek (11,6th inning off Burns 0 on, 2 out).  SB–LeFlore (32,2nd base off Clay/Bulling); Randle (11,2nd base off Burns/Fisk); Paciorek (12,2nd base off Burns/Fisk).  CS–LeFlore (10,2nd base by Andersen/Bulling).  U-HP–Ken Kaiser, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–Bill Haller, 3B–George Maloney.  T–3:14.  A–5,178.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook