Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
April 9, 2000 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 9, 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 6, Baltimore Orioles 11

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Polonia rf 4 1 1 0
Jefferies dh 3 1 1 0
Higginson lf 5 2 1 0
Palmer 3b 5 1 1 1
Ausmus c 4 0 2 2
Fick 1b 4 0 2 1
Easley 2b 0 0 0 0
  Halter ph,2b 4 0 1 0
Encarnacion cf 4 1 1 1
Cruz ss 4 0 0 0
Nitkowski p 0 0 0 0
  Blair p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 10 5
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Amaral cf 5 1 3 0
DeShields 2b 5 1 2 2
  Garcia 2b 0 0 0 0
Surhoff lf 5 1 1 0
Belle rf 4 3 3 0
Conine 1b 5 1 3 1
Ripken, Jr. 3b 4 0 0 1
Clark dh 4 2 1 3
Morales c 4 1 2 0
Bordick ss 3 1 1 2
Mercedes p 0 0 0 0
  Worrell p 0 0 0 0
  Groom p 0 0 0 0
  Trombley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 11 16 9
Detroit 300 011 1006102
Baltimore 260 300 00x11162
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Nitkowski  L (0-2) 3.1 11 11 7 2 5
  Blair   2.2 2 0 0 0 0
  Patterson   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Jones   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
16
11
7
2
6
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Mercedes  W (1-0) 5.0 7 4 3 3 3
  Worrell   2.0 3 2 2 0 2
  Groom   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Trombley   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
6
5
3
6

  E–Fick (1), Encarnacion (2), Conine (1), Groom (2).  DP–Detroit 1, Baltimore 2.  2B–Detroit Higginson (1,off Worrell); Ausmus (4,off Worrell), Baltimore Clark (4,off Nitkowski); Belle (2,off Jones).  3B–Detroit Polonia (1,off Mercedes).  HR–Detroit Palmer (3,5th inning off Mercedes 0 on, 0 out); Encarnacion (2,6th inning off Worrell 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Clark (1,off Nitkowski); Bordick (2,off Blair).  SB–Amaral (1,3rd base off Nitkowski/Ausmus); DeShields 2 (4,2nd base off Nitkowski/Ausmus 2).  CS–Belle (2,3rd base by Jones/Ausmus).  U-HP–Kerwin Danley, 1B–Andrew Fletcher, 2B–Jim McKean, 3B–Dan Morrison.  T–3:15.  A–42,178.
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