Baltimore Orioles vs Seattle Mariners
August 20, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 20, 1985 at Kingdome. The Seattle Mariners 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

Baltimore Orioles 3, Seattle Mariners 4

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Wiggins 2b 4 1 1 0
  Gross ph 1 0 0 0
  Dauer 2b 0 0 0 0
Lacy rf 4 0 0 1
Ripken, Jr. ss 4 0 1 0
Murray 1b 3 0 2 0
Lynn cf 4 0 0 0
Young lf 4 0 0 0
Sheets dh 4 1 2 1
Rayford 3b 4 0 1 0
Dempsey c 3 1 1 1
Flanagan p 0 0 0 0
  Snell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 8 3
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Perconte 2b 5 1 1 0
Bradley lf 4 1 3 1
Cowens rf 4 0 1 0
Thomas dh 4 0 0 1
Davis 1b 4 1 1 0
  Reynolds pr 0 0 0 0
  Ramos 1b 0 0 0 0
Presley 3b 2 1 1 0
Henderson cf 2 0 0 0
Kearney c 4 0 1 0
Owen ss 4 0 1 2
Moore p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 9 4
Baltimore 100 020 000383
Seattle 001 200 001491
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Flanagan   7.0 7 3 3 2 3
  Snell  L (3-2) 1.1 2 1 1 3 0
Totals
8.1
9
4
4
5
3
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Moore  W (11-7) 9.0 8 3 3 2 5
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
2
5

  E–Murray (14), Young (5), Rayford (6), Presley (14).  DP–Baltimore 1, Seattle 1.  2B–Baltimore Wiggins (7,off Moore), Seattle Kearney (12,off Flanagan); Bradley (23,off Flanagan).  HR–Baltimore Sheets (14,5th inning off Moore 0 on, 0 out); Dempsey (8,5th inning off Moore 0 on, 1 out), Seattle Bradley (17,3rd inning off Flanagan 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Presley (1,off Snell).  HBP–Bradley (10,by Flanagan).  IBB–Henderson (2,by Snell).  SB–Wiggins (19,3rd base off Moore/Kearney).  HBP–Flanagan (1,Bradley).  IBB–Snell (4,Henderson).  T–2:53.  A–10,840.
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