Texas Rangers vs Boston Red Sox
August 31, 1976 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1976 at Fenway Park. The Texas Rangers defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 8, Boston Red Sox 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Thompson ss 5 0 0 0
Harrah dh 5 1 2 0
Hargrove 1b 4 1 2 0
Burroughs rf 4 3 0 1
Grieve lf 4 2 2 2
Howell 3b 5 0 2 3
Randle 2b 4 0 0 1
Beniquez cf 3 1 2 0
Sundberg c 3 0 0 0
Briles p 0 0 0 0
  Foucault p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 8 10 7
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Hobson 3b 5 0 0 0
Doyle 2b 5 0 2 0
Lynn cf 3 0 1 0
Yastrzemski lf 4 1 1 0
Fisk c 5 1 1 0
Cooper 1b 4 1 3 1
Rice dh 3 0 1 1
Evans rf 4 0 1 1
Heise ss 3 0 1 0
  Miller ph 1 0 0 0
  Petrocelli ss 0 0 0 0
Cleveland p 0 0 0 0
  Pole p 0 0 0 0
  Willoughby p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 11 3
Texas 023 000 2108100
Boston 010 002 0003113
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Briles  W (9-8) 7.0 10 3 3 3 4
  Foucault   2.0 1 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
3
7
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Cleveland  L (7-7) 2.2 5 5 3 1 1
  Pole   4.1 4 2 2 2 0
  Willoughby   2.0 1 1 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
8
5
3
2

  E–Doyle (10), Heise 2 (3).  DP–Boston 1.  2B–Texas Grieve (20,off Cleveland); Howell (21,off Cleveland); Harrah (17,off Cleveland), Boston Cooper 2 (17,off Briles 2).  3B–Boston Evans (3,off Briles); Lynn (7,off Briles).  HR–Texas Grieve (13,7th inning off Pole 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Grieve (7,off Cleveland).  HBP–Beniquez (3,by Cleveland).  SF–Rice (9,off Briles).  WP–Pole (6).  HBP–Cleveland (4,Beniquez).  U-HP–Terry Cooney, 1B–Jerry Neudecker, 2B–(none), 3B–Bill Deegan.  T–3:03.  A–18,145.
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