Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
April 8, 2000 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 8, 2000 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 1, Baltimore Orioles 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Easley 2b 3 0 1 0
  Gonzalez ph 1 0 0 0
  Halter 2b 1 0 0 0
Ausmus c 4 0 3 0
Higginson lf 3 0 1 0
Palmer 3b 3 1 0 0
Clark 1b 5 0 0 0
Encarnacion cf 4 0 1 0
Fick dh 3 0 2 1
  Jefferies ph,dh 0 0 0 0
Garcia rf 3 0 0 0
  Polonia ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Cruz ss 4 0 2 0
Nomo p 0 0 0 0
  Brocail p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 10 1
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Anderson cf 2 0 0 0
DeShields 2b 5 0 1 1
Surhoff lf 4 0 1 1
Belle rf 3 0 1 0
Baines dh 4 0 1 0
Conine 3b 4 0 0 0
Clark 1b 3 0 1 0
Johnson c 4 0 1 0
Bordick ss 4 2 2 0
Mussina p 0 0 0 0
  McElroy p 0 0 0 0
  Reyes p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Detroit 000 100 000 01100
Baltimore 000 000 010 1281
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Nomo   7.0 4 0 0 2 5
  Brocail  L (0-1) 2.1 4 2 2 1 0
Totals
9.1
8
2
2
3
5
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Mussina   8.0 10 1 1 1 6
  McElroy   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Reyes  W (1-0) 1.2 0 0 0 2 1
Totals
10.0
10
1
1
4
7

  E–Anderson (1).  DP–Detroit 2, Baltimore 2.  2B–Detroit Ausmus (3,off Mussina), Baltimore Clark (3,off Nomo).  SH–Higginson 2 (2,off Mussina,off Reyes); Anderson 2 (2,off Brocail 2).  CS–D Cruz (1,2nd base by Mussina/C Johnson); Belle (1,3rd base by Nomo/Ausmus).  WP–Nomo (2).  U-HP–Dan Morrison, 1B–Kerwin Danley, 2B–Andrew Fletcher, 3B–Jim McKean.  T–3:06.  A–42,547.
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