Chicago White Sox vs Toronto Blue Jays
September 1, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 1, 1985 at Exhibition Stadium. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 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 1

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Nichols lf 2 0 0 0
  Law ph,lf 3 0 0 0
Fletcher ss 1 2 1 0
  Guillen ph,ss 3 0 1 0
Baines rf 4 1 1 2
Fisk c 4 0 1 1
Salazar cf,3b 4 0 1 0
Walker 1b 4 0 1 0
Kittle dh 4 1 1 1
Hulett 3b 1 0 0 0
  Boston ph,cf 2 0 1 0
Cruz 2b 3 0 1 0
Burns p 0 0 0 0
  James p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 9 4
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Garcia 2b 4 1 1 0
Moseby cf 4 0 0 0
Johnson dh 4 0 2 1
  Shepherd pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Bell lf 4 0 1 0
Barfield rf 4 0 0 0
Fielder 1b 3 0 1 0
  Upshaw 1b 1 0 0 0
Iorg 3b 3 0 0 0
  Mulliniks ph 1 0 1 0
Fernandez ss 4 0 1 0
Nicosia c 3 0 1 0
  Whitt ph 1 0 0 0
Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Acker p 0 0 0 0
  Cerutti p 0 0 0 0
  Caudill p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 1 8 1
Chicago 102 100 000491
Toronto 000 000 010180
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burns  W (15-8) 7.0 5 0 0 0 4
  James   2.0 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
0
5
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Davis  L (1-1) 3.1 5 4 4 2 3
  Acker   3.0 3 0 0 1 0
  Cerutti   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Caudill   2.1 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
3
6

  E–Hulett (18).  DP–Toronto 1.  2B–Chicago Fisk (17,off Davis), Toronto Bell (23,off Burns).  HR–Chicago Baines (15,3rd inning off Davis 1 on, 1 out); Kittle (15,4th inning off Davis 0 on, 1 out).  SB–Cruz (7,2nd base off Caudill/Nicosia).  CS–Boston (6,2nd base by Acker/Nicosia).  T–2:55.  A–44,182.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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