Texas Rangers vs Detroit Tigers
August 5, 1977 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 5, 1977 at Tiger Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 6, Detroit Tigers 0

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Hargrove 1b 3 0 0 0
Campaneris ss 4 0 0 0
  Mason ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Wills 2b 4 1 0 0
Horton dh 3 1 1 0
  Alomar pr,dh 0 1 0 0
Harrah 3b 2 3 1 0
Smith lf 3 0 0 0
Grieve rf 3 0 2 2
Sundberg c 4 0 2 2
Washington cf 4 0 1 0
Briles p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 7 4
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 0 2 0
Fuentes 2b 4 0 0 0
Staub dh 4 0 2 0
Kemp lf 4 0 0 0
Thompson 1b 4 0 0 0
Oglivie rf 3 0 1 0
Wockenfuss c 3 0 0 0
Rodriguez 3b 3 0 0 0
Scrivener ss 2 0 0 0
  Corcoran ph 1 0 1 0
  Veryzer ss 0 0 0 0
Sykes p 0 0 0 0
  Grilli p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 6 0
Texas 000 103 020670
Detroit 000 000 000062
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Briles  W (5-4) 9.0 6 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
0
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sykes  L (2-4) 6.0 6 4 3 3 5
  Grilli   1.2 1 2 2 4 2
  Taylor   1.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
6
5
7
7

  E–Fuentes (20), Wockenfuss (3).  PB–Wockenfuss 2 (5).  2B–Detroit LeFlore (11,off Briles).  SH–Smith (2,off Sykes).  IBB–Grieve (1,by Grilli).  SB–Alomar 2 (4,2nd base off Grilli/Wockenfuss,3rd base off Grilli/Wockenfuss).  CS–Hargrove 2 (4,2nd base by Sykes/Wockenfuss,2nd base by Grilli/Wockenfuss); LeFlore (14,2nd base by Briles/Sundberg).  IBB–Grilli (1,Grieve).  U-HP–Greg Kosc, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–George Maloney, 3B–Ken Kaiser.  T–2:32.  A–27,094.
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