Kansas City Royals vs Baltimore Orioles
May 5, 2002 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 5, 2002 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City Royals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Kansas City Royals 2, Baltimore Orioles 3

Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch lf 4 1 1 0
Tucker rf 4 1 1 1
Sweeney 1b 4 0 1 0
Beltran cf 4 0 2 0
Alicea 3b 4 0 1 0
  Sadler pr,3b 0 0 0 0
Ibanez dh 3 0 0 0
  Randa ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Perez ss 4 0 1 0
Brito c 3 0 2 0
  McCarty ph 1 0 0 0
Febles 2b 4 0 0 0
George p 0 0 0 0
  Reichert p 0 0 0 0
  Bailey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 2 9 1
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Mora cf 3 0 1 0
Matthews rf 4 1 2 0
Conine 1b 4 1 1 2
Batista 3b 4 0 0 0
Cordova lf 4 1 2 0
Gibbons dh 3 0 0 0
Bordick ss 4 0 3 1
Fordyce c 4 0 2 0
Hairston 2b 3 0 0 0
Maduro p 0 0 0 0
  Bauer p 0 0 0 0
  Groom p 0 0 0 0
  Julio p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 11 3
Kansas City 100 001 000291
Baltimore 000 003 00x3110
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
George  L (0-3) 5.2 8 3 3 1 1
  Reichert   1.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Bailey   1.0 2 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
11
3
3
3
3
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Maduro  W (2-3) 6.1 7 2 1 0 5
  Bauer   1.1 2 0 0 0 2
  Groom   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Julio  SV (6) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
2
1
0
10

  E–Febles (3).  PB–Fordyce (1).  2B–Baltimore Matthews (2,off George); Bordick (7,off George).  HR–Kansas City Tucker (2,1st inning off Maduro 0 on, 1 out), Baltimore Conine (3,6th inning off George 1 on, 0 out).  SB–Beltran (7,2nd base off Maduro/Fordyce).  CS–Cordova (2,2nd base by George/Brito); Hairston (1,2nd base by George/Brito).  WP–Reichert (3).  U-HP–Mark Hirschbeck, 1B–Paul Schrieber, 2B–Jim Reynolds, 3B–Matt Hollowell.  T–2:38.  A–39,348.
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