Seattle Mariners vs Toronto Blue Jays
May 12, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 12, 1988 at Exhibition Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays 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)
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Seattle Mariners 2, Toronto Blue Jays 8

Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Martinez 3b 3 0 1 0
Wilson rf 3 0 0 0
  Kingery ph,rf 1 0 0 0
  Hengel ph 1 0 0 0
Cotto cf 4 0 0 0
Davis 1b 2 1 0 0
Brantley lf 4 0 1 0
Presley dh 3 0 1 0
Valle c 3 0 1 1
Quinones ss 4 1 1 1
Reynolds 2b 4 0 2 0
Swift p 0 0 0 0
  Powell p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Wilkinson p 0 0 0 0
  Reed p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Fernandez ss 4 1 2 0
Whitt c 4 0 0 0
Mulliniks dh 3 0 1 1
  Beniquez ph,dh 2 0 1 0
Bell lf 5 0 1 0
McGriff 1b 4 3 2 0
Barfield cf 4 2 2 1
Leach rf 3 2 1 2
Gruber 3b 4 0 3 3
Liriano 2b 3 0 0 0
Flanagan p 0 0 0 0
  Ward p 0 0 0 0
  Wells p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 8 13 7
Seattle 001 000 010272
Toronto 100 303 10x8130
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Swift  L (2-1) 5.0 10 6 5 1 1
  Powell   0.2 1 1 0 1 1
  Jackson   1.1 1 1 1 1 1
  Wilkinson   0.2 1 0 0 1 1
  Reed   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
13
8
6
4
4
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Flanagan  W (4-2) 6.1 6 1 1 3 2
  Ward   1.0 1 1 1 2 0
  Wells   1.2 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
5
4

  E–Davis (3), Swift (1).  DP–Seattle 1, Toronto 1.  2B–Seattle Martinez (1,off Flanagan); Valle (3,off Flanagan), Toronto Barfield (4,off Swift); McGriff 2 (9,off Swift,off Jackson); Gruber (9,off Powell).  HR–Seattle Quinones (2,3rd inning off Flanagan 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Martinez (1,off Flanagan).  HBP–Presley (1,by Ward).  IBB–Leach (2,by Jackson).  BK–Jackson (4).  HBP–Ward (2,Presley).  IBB–Jackson (1,Leach).  U-HP–Terry Cooney, 1B–Durwood Merrill, 2B–Joe Brinkman, 3B–Tim Welke.  T–3:03.  A–30,334.
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