Texas Rangers vs Chicago White Sox
September 3, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 3, 1973 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Texas Rangers 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

Texas Rangers 2, Chicago White Sox 5

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Nelson 2b 3 0 1 1
Harrah 3b,ss 3 0 0 0
Burroughs lf,1b 4 1 2 0
Johnson dh 3 0 1 0
Fregosi 1b,3b 4 0 1 1
Harris cf 3 0 1 0
Billings c,lf 4 0 0 0
Maddox rf 1 1 0 0
Mason ss 2 0 0 0
  Suarez ph,c 2 0 1 0
Merritt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 7 2
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Jeter cf 4 0 0 0
Alvarado ss 4 1 1 1
Hairston lf 4 0 0 0
  Sharp lf 0 0 0 0
Melton 3b 4 1 2 0
May dh 2 1 1 0
Downing rf 4 0 1 1
Leon 2b 3 1 2 1
Muser 1b 4 0 0 0
Brinkman c 3 1 1 1
Forster p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 8 4
Texas 000 110 000271
Chicago 020 000 30x580
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Merritt  L (5-11) 8.0 8 5 4 2 4
Totals
8.0
8
5
4
2
4
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Forster  W (6-5) 9.0 7 2 2 6 4
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
6
4

  E–Harrah (23).  DP–Chicago 4.  2B–Texas Suarez (10,off Forster), Chicago Downing (1,off Merritt); Melton (27,off Merritt); Leon (10,off Merritt).  3B–Chicago Leon (3,off Merritt).  SH–Nelson (9,off Forster).  SF–Leon (4,off Merritt).  IBB–May (6,by Merritt).  WP–Forster (4).  IBB–Merritt (2,May).  U-HP–George Maloney, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Hank Morgenweck.  T–2:06.  A–12,387.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook