Texas Rangers vs California Angels
September 26, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 26, 1973 at Anaheim Stadium. The California Angels 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)
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Texas Rangers 4, California Angels 5

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Randle 2b 4 1 2 0
Mason ss 4 0 0 1
Spencer 1b 5 1 1 1
Burroughs rf 4 2 3 2
Johnson lf 4 0 0 0
Sudakis dh 4 0 0 0
Madlock 3b 3 0 3 0
Billings c 4 0 0 0
Harris cf 3 0 0 0
Siebert p 0 0 0 0
  Merritt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 9 4
California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 0 2 1
Pinson rf 5 0 1 0
Robinson dh 4 1 2 1
Oliver 3b 5 0 2 1
McCraw 1b 4 1 2 0
Berry lf 4 1 0 0
Parker 2b 4 1 2 1
Stephenson c 3 0 1 1
  Stanton ph 1 0 0 0
  Torborg c 0 0 0 0
Chalk ss 4 1 1 0
Hand p 0 0 0 0
  Sells p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 5 13 5
Texas 100 100 110491
California 100 300 0015130
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Siebert   3.2 7 4 2 0 4
  Merritt  L (5-13) 5.0 6 1 1 1 5
Totals
8.2
13
5
3
1
9
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Hand   7.0 8 4 4 1 1
  Sells  W (7-2) 2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
2
1

  E–Randle (2).  DP–Texas 1.  3B–Texas Randle (1,off Hand).  HR–Texas Spencer (6,1st inning off Hand 0 on, 2 out); Burroughs 2 (30,4th inning off Hand 0 on, 0 out,8th inning off Hand 0 on, 0 out), California Robinson (30,1st inning off Siebert 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Randle (1,off Sells).  HBP–Madlock (1,by Hand).  SB–Madlock 2 (3,2nd base off Hand/Stephenson,2nd base off Sells/Stephenson).  HBP–Hand (3,Madlock).  U-HP–Joe Brinkman, 1B–Dave Phillips, 2B–Art Frantz, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:22.  A–3,923.
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