Baltimore Orioles vs Toronto Blue Jays
September 14, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 14, 1987 at Exhibition Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Baltimore Orioles and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Baltimore Orioles 3, Toronto Blue Jays 18

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Stanicek dh 5 0 1 0
Ripken 2b 4 1 1 0
Sheets rf 4 1 2 0
Murray 1b 4 0 3 0
Ripken, Jr. ss 4 0 2 2
  Washington ss 0 0 0 0
Knight 3b 4 0 0 0
  Gonzales 3b 0 0 0 0
Kennedy c 3 0 0 0
  Nichols c 1 0 1 0
Young lf 4 0 0 0
Hart cf 4 1 1 1
Dixon p 0 0 0 0
  Bell p 0 0 0 0
  Griffin p 0 0 0 0
  Kinnunen p 0 0 0 0
  Arnold p 0 0 0 0
  O'Connor p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 11 3
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Liriano 2b 4 3 3 1
Moseby cf 4 1 1 2
  Ducey cf 2 1 1 3
Fernandez ss 4 0 1 1
  Lee ss 2 1 1 0
Bell lf 4 2 2 2
  Thornton lf 1 1 1 0
Whitt c 5 3 3 5
  Myers c 0 0 0 0
Barfield rf 5 1 4 0
Mulliniks 3b 3 2 2 3
  Gruber ph,3b 2 0 0 0
McGriff dh 4 2 1 1
Upshaw 1b 4 1 1 0
Clancy p 0 0 0 0
  Eichhorn p 0 0 0 0
  Henke p 0 0 0 0
Totals 44 18 21 18
Baltimore 001 001 0103110
Toronto 052 111 71x18210
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Dixon  L (7-10) 1.2 5 5 5 1 2
  Bell   1.1 2 2 2 0 1
  Griffin   2.0 3 2 2 2 0
  Kinnunen   1.2 6 6 6 1 0
  Arnold   0.2 5 3 3 0 0
  O'Connor   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
21
18
18
4
4
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Clancy  W (13-10) 7.0 7 2 2 1 6
  Eichhorn   1.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Henke   1.0 2 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
1
8

  E–None.  DP–Baltimore 1, Toronto 1.  2B–Baltimore Murray (25,off Clancy); C Ripken (24,off Clancy), Toronto Liriano (4,off Dixon); Barfield (20,off Dixon).  HR–Baltimore Hart (4,3rd inning off Clancy 0 on, 0 out), Toronto Whitt 3 (17,2nd inn off Dixon,5th off Griffin,7th off Arnold); Mulliniks 2 (10,2nd inn off Dixon,3rd off Bell); Moseby (23,2nd inn off Dixon); Bell 2 (45,3rd inn off Bell,6th off Kinnunen); Ducey (1,7th inn off Kinnunen); McGriff (19,8th inn off Arnold).  WP–Clancy (9).  U-HP–Greg Kosc, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Rocky Roe, 3B–Larry Barnett.  T–3:18.  A–27,446.
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