Texas Rangers vs Toronto Blue Jays
May 13, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 13, 1979 at Exhibition Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays 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 1, Toronto Blue Jays 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Sample lf 3 0 0 0
  Blanks ss 0 0 0 0
  Gray ph 1 0 0 0
  Chalk ss 0 0 0 0
Bell 3b 4 0 2 0
Oliver cf 4 0 2 0
Zisk rf 3 0 0 0
Putnam dh 4 1 1 0
Jorgensen 1b 4 0 2 0
Sundberg c 3 0 0 1
Wills 2b 3 0 0 0
Norman ss 2 0 1 0
  Grubb ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Alexander p 0 0 0 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 8 1
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 4 2 2 0
Bailor rf 4 0 1 1
Howell 3b 4 0 0 1
  Johnson 3b 0 0 0 0
Carty dh 3 0 1 0
Mayberry 1b 3 0 1 1
Bosetti cf 3 0 0 0
Woods lf 3 0 0 0
McKay 2b 2 1 1 0
Davis c 1 0 0 0
  Velez ph 1 0 0 0
  Cerone c 0 0 0 0
Lemongello p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 6 3
Texas 000 100 000180
Toronto 001 001 01x361
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Alexander  L (1-2) 7.1 6 3 3 2 2
  Lyle   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
6
3
3
2
2
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Lemongello  W (1-4) 9.0 8 1 1 1 5
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
1
5

  E–Howell (5).  DP–Toronto 2.  2B–Texas Jorgensen (5,off Lemongello), Toronto Carty (4,off Alexander); Griffin (3,off Alexander); Mayberry (9,off Alexander).  3B–Toronto Griffin (3,off Alexander).  SF–Sundberg (4,off Lemongello).  SH–Davis (1,off Alexander).  CS–Jorgensen (1,2nd base by Lemongello/Davis); Howell (2,2nd base by Lyle/Sundberg).  U-HP–Rich Panas, 1B–Joe Sawchuk, 2B–Alan Contant, 3B–Derryl Cousins.  T–1:59.
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