Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
September 12, 1984 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 12, 1984 at Memorial Stadium. 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 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 4 0 1 0
Trammell ss 4 0 1 0
Gibson rf 4 0 0 0
Parrish c 4 0 2 0
Evans 3b 3 0 0 0
Jones lf 3 0 1 0
Grubb dh 3 0 0 0
Lemon cf 3 1 1 0
Bergman 1b 3 0 0 0
Mason p 0 0 0 0
  O'Neal p 0 0 0 0
  Scherrer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 6 0
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry lf 4 0 1 0
Shelby cf 4 1 1 0
Ripken, Jr. ss 4 0 2 0
Murray 1b 3 1 0 0
Young rf 4 1 2 0
Singleton dh 2 0 0 0
Gross 3b 1 0 0 1
  Cruz pr,3b 1 0 0 0
Sakata 2b 3 0 1 1
Dempsey c 4 0 1 0
Martinez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 8 2
Detroit 000 001 000161
Baltimore 021 000 00x380
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Mason  L (0-1) 4.0 6 3 3 2 3
  O'Neal   3.0 1 0 0 1 2
  Scherrer   1.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
8
3
3
4
7
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Martinez  W (6-7) 9.0 6 1 1 0 6
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
0
6

  E–Parrish (5).  DP–Baltimore 2.  2B–Detroit Jones (11,off D Martinez); Lemon (29,off D Martinez), Baltimore Young (15,off Mason); Shelby (10,off Mason); Ripken (31,off Mason).  SH–Singleton (1,off Scherrer).  SF–Gross (1,off Mason).  IBB–Sakata (2,by Scherrer).  SB–Shelby (12,3rd base off Mason/Parrish).  WP–D Martinez (6).  IBB–Scherrer (1,Sakata).  T–2:33.  A–24,561.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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