Toronto Blue Jays vs Chicago White Sox
August 16, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 16, 1988 at Comiskey Park I. 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)
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Toronto Blue Jays 4, Chicago White Sox 5

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Fernandez ss 5 1 1 0
Whitt c 3 0 1 2
Mulliniks dh 2 0 1 0
  Fielder ph,dh 1 0 1 0
  Gruber pr,dh 0 0 0 0
  Leach ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Bell lf 3 0 0 1
McGriff 1b 4 0 1 0
Barfield rf 4 0 0 0
Moseby cf 2 1 1 0
Liriano 2b 4 1 2 0
Lee 3b 4 1 2 1
Key p 0 0 0 0
  Stieb p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 10 4
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Redus lf 3 0 0 0
Lyons cf 4 1 1 0
Baines dh 2 1 0 0
Fisk c 3 2 2 3
Paris 3b 4 1 1 0
Gallagher rf 2 0 0 0
Morman 1b 3 0 0 0
Manrique 2b 4 0 1 1
Guillen ss 3 0 1 0
McDowell p 0 0 0 0
  Horton p 0 0 0 0
  Pall p 0 0 0 0
  Thigpen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 5 6 4
Toronto 100 000 2014100
Chicago 022 010 00x560
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Key  L (7-3) 3.0 4 4 4 3 1
  Stieb   5.0 2 1 1 4 2
Totals
8.0
6
5
5
7
3
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
McDowell  W (5-8) 6.0 6 3 3 3 3
  Horton   0.2 2 0 0 0 0
  Pall   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Thigpen  SV (26) 2.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
3
3

  E–None.  DP–Toronto 2, Chicago 1.  2B–Chicago Lyons (17,off Stieb).  3B–Toronto McGriff (3,off McDowell).  HR–Chicago Fisk (11,3rd inning off Key 1 on, 1 out).  SF–Bell (5,off McDowell); Whitt 2 (5,off Horton,off Thigpen).  SB–Moseby (22,2nd base off McDowell/Fisk); Liriano (9,2nd base off McDowell/Fisk).  BK–Thigpen (2).  U-HP–Rich Garcia, 1B–John Hirschbeck, 2B–Dale Scott, 3B–Rick Reed.  T–3:09.  A–15,706.
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