Baltimore Orioles vs Chicago White Sox
May 9, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 1987 at Comiskey Park I. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Baltimore Orioles 15, Chicago White Sox 6

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Wiggins 2b 5 1 1 1
Lacy rf 6 3 3 1
Ripken, Jr. ss 5 1 1 1
Murray 1b 6 3 4 4
Lynn cf 4 1 2 1
  Gerhart pr,cf 0 1 0 0
Knight 3b 4 1 1 3
Kennedy c 5 0 0 0
Sheets lf 5 1 3 3
Dwyer dh 4 3 2 1
Ballard p 0 0 0 0
  Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 44 15 17 15
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boston cf 5 1 2 0
Redus lf 5 0 1 0
Baines dh 4 1 3 1
Fisk 1b 4 1 0 0
Calderon rf 4 0 1 1
Hulett 3b 4 1 1 1
Manrique 2b 3 0 0 1
Guillen ss 3 1 1 0
Karkovice c 3 1 1 2
  Hairston ph 1 0 1 0
Davis p 0 0 0 0
  McKeon p 0 0 0 0
  James p 0 0 0 0
  Winn p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 11 6
Baltimore 203 203 22115172
Chicago 132 000 0006111
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Ballard   2.0 7 6 4 1 0
  Schmidt  W (3-1) 7.0 4 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
6
4
1
2
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Davis   2.1 5 5 5 3 0
  McKeon  L (0-2) 3.0 4 4 4 1 1
  James   2.2 6 5 3 0 4
  Winn   1.0 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
9.0
17
15
13
5
5

  E–Knight 2 (6), Manrique (1).  DP–Baltimore 1.  2B–Baltimore Murray (7,off Davis); Sheets (2,off McKeon); Dwyer (2,off James).  3B–Baltimore Wiggins (2,off James), Chicago Guillen (2,off Schmidt).  HR–Baltimore Murray 2 (7,4th inning off McKeon 1 on, 2 out,6th inning off James 0 on, 2 out); Dwyer (2,6th inning off McKeon 0 on, 0 out); Lacy (2,6th inning off McKeon 0 on, 1 out); Sheets (2,7th inning off James 0 on, 2 out); Knight (3,8th inning off James 1 on, 2 o, Chicago Hulett (5,2nd inning off Ballard 0 on, 0 out); Karkovice (1,2nd inning off Ballard 1 on, 1 out).  SF–Manrique (1,off Schmidt).  SB–Calderon (5,2nd base off Schmidt/Kennedy).  WP–James (3).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Don Denkinger, 2B–Ted Hendry, 3B–Drew Coble.  T–3:01.  A–18,175.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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