Box Score of 500th Home Run by Eddie Murray

Eddie Murray already had three thousand hits and on this night he was about to join the five hundred home runs club. Travel back to that legendary day in Murray's magnificent career with Baseball Almanac and imagine number five-hundred!

"Right then it was a big hit and I knew I had done two things. It tied the game and we need some wins." - Eddie Murray (on hitting his 500th career home run)
Eddie Murray

Eddie Murray 500th Home Run Ticket

500th Home Run Box Score
September 6, 1996
Camden Yards

Detroit Tigers
Name Pos AB R H RBI

Kimera Bartee

cf 2 0 0 0

   a-Bobby Higginson

ph-cf 2 1 2 2

Mark Lewis

2b 5 0 0 1

Travis Fryman

ss 3 0 0 0

Alan Trammell

ss 2 0 0 0

Ruben Sierra

lf 5 1 3 0

Tony Clark

1b 5 0 0 0

Melvin Nieves

rf 5 0 1 0

Phil Nevin

3b 4 2 2 2

Phil Hiatt

dh 4 1 1 0

Curtis Pride

ph 0 0 0 0

Brad Ausmus

c 5 0 1 0
Totals 42 5 10 5

 

Baltimore Orioles
Name Pos AB R H RBI

Brady Anderson

cf 4 1 0 0

Todd Zeile

3b 6 1 2 0

Roberto Alomar

2b 4 0 0 1

Rafael Palmeiro

1b 6 1 2 1

Bobby Bonilla

rf 4 0 2 1

Cal Ripken, Jr.

ss 5 0 1 0

Eddie Murray

dh 4 1 1 1

B.J. Surhoff

lf 4 0 1 0

   c-Pete Incaviglia

ph-lf 1 0 0 0

Chris Hoiles

c 3 0 1 0

   b-Manny Alexander

pr 0 0 0 0

Mark Parent

c 1 0 0 0
Totals 42 4 10 4

a: Hit home run for Bartee in 7th inning.
b: Pinch ran for Hoiles in 9th inning.
c: Grounded out for Surhoff in 11th inning.

Caught Stealing: Hiatt.
Double Plays: Lewis-Fryman-Clark, Zeile-Alomar-Palmeiro,
Alomar-Ripken-Palmeiro.
Double
: Zeile.
GIDP: Nevin, Nieves, Surhoff.
Home Runs: Higginson, Murray, Nevin, Palmeiro.
Left on Base: Detroit 5, Baltimore 9.
Sacrifice Fly: Alomar, Bonilla.
Sacrifice Hit: Bartee.
Stolen Base: Sierra.

Line Score

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E

Detroit

0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 10 0

Baltimore

0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 10 0

Pitching Notes

Detroit Tigers
Name IP H R ER BB SO

Felipe Lira

6.2 6 3 3 2 2

   Joey Eischen

0.1 0 0 0 0 1

   Richie Lewis

0.0 1 1 1 0 0

   Mike Myers

0.1 1 0 0 0 1

   Jose Lima

1.2 1 0 0 1 1

   John Cummings

3.0 1 0 0 1 0

 

Baltimore Orioles
Name IP H R ER BB SO

David Wells

7.0 7 3 3 0 11

   Alan Mills

1.0 1 1 1 0 1

   Jimmy Myers

1.2 1 0 0 1 2

   Armando Benitez

0.1 0 0 0 0 1

   Jesse Orosco

1.1 0 0 0 0 1

   Terry Mathews

0.2 1 1 1 2 1

Losing Pitcher: Mathews.
Winning Pitcher: Cummings.

Hit by Pitcher: Anderson (by Lira).

Game Notes

Attendance: 48,262.
Length of game: 4:18.
Umpires: HP: Mark Hirschbeck, 1B: Jim Joyce, 2B: Jim McKean, 3B: Ted Hendry.



Did you know that this game was exactly one year after Cal Ripken, Jr. had his legendary 2,131 game at Camden Yards?

Eddie Murray hit the historic shot off Felipe Lira's first pitch and deposited it over the right field wall, four hundred thirteen feet away!

Eddie Murray was given a nine minute standing ovation and a banner reading, "CONGRATULATIONS EDDIE 500" was lowered over the ivy covered wall in centerfield!