| Tigers Win Game 1...Game 2 cancelled after fans mob the field. |
| Outs: | 3 | Inning: | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | R | H | E | |
| Away | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 0 | ||||||
| Home | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | ||||||
| 1979 Detroit Tigers | |||||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | SB | CS | |
| Ron LeFlore | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lou Whitaker | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Rusty Staub | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Steve Kemp | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Jason Thompson | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lance Parrish | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jerry Morales | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Alan Trammell | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Aurelio Rodriguez | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | PC | |||
| Jack Morris | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 115 | ||
| Aurelio Lopez | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | |||
| 1979 Chicago White Sox | |||||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | SB | CS | |
| Chet Lemon | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Alan Bannister | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Lamar Johnson | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Greg Pryor | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Claudell Washington | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jorge Orta | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ralph Garr | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mike Squires | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Jim Morrison | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | PC | |||
| Ken Kravec | 1.6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | ||
| Richard Dotson | 4.3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 66 | |||||
| Mike Proly | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 34 | ||||||