Cleveland Indians vs Texas Rangers
April 11, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 11, 1979 at Arlington Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 0, Texas Rangers 4

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Harrah 3b 3 0 0 0
Manning cf 4 0 0 0
Bonds rf 3 0 0 0
Thornton 1b 3 0 0 0
Alexander c 3 0 0 0
Norris dh 3 0 0 0
Cox lf 3 0 1 0
Kuiper 2b 3 0 0 0
Veryzer ss 3 0 0 0
Wilkins p 0 0 0 0
  Hood p 0 0 0 0
  Spillner p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 1 0
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 4 1 2 0
Sample lf 2 1 0 0
Oliver cf 4 0 1 1
Grubb rf 4 0 0 0
Bell 3b 2 1 0 0
Gamble dh 1 1 0 0
  Ellis ph,dh 1 0 0 1
Sundberg c 3 0 0 0
Putnam 1b 2 0 1 1
  Jorgensen 1b 0 0 0 0
Norman ss 3 0 1 1
Comer p 0 0 0 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 4 5 4
Cleveland 000 000 000011
Texas 020 020 00x450
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wilkins  L (0-1) 4.0 5 4 2 4 2
  Hood   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Spillner   3.2 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
5
4
2
5
4
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Comer  W (1-0) 7.0 1 0 0 1 6
  Lyle   2.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
1
0
0
1
6

  E–Thornton (1).  DP–Cleveland 1.  2B–Texas Oliver (1,off Wilkins).  SF–Putnam (1,off Wilkins); J Ellis (1,off Spillner).  HBP–Bell (1,by Wilkins).  IBB–Bell (1,by Hood).  HBP–Wilkins (1,Bell).  IBB–Hood (1,Bell).  U-HP–Johnny James, 1B–Mike Thompson, 2B–Fred Spenn, 3B–Jeff Brown.  T–2:10.  A–12,784.
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