Texas Rangers vs Boston Red Sox
June 5, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 5, 1979 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox 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 3, Boston Red Sox 9

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Grubb lf 5 1 3 1
Bell 3b 4 0 2 0
Oliver cf 4 0 0 0
Zisk rf 4 0 1 1
Putnam 1b 4 0 1 0
Ellis dh 4 0 2 0
  Sample pr,dh 0 1 0 0
Sundberg c 4 0 0 0
Wills 2b 4 1 1 0
Blanks ss 3 0 0 0
  Gamble ph 1 0 1 1
  Norman pr 0 0 0 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Medich p 0 0 0 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 11 3
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burleson ss 5 0 0 0
Wolfe 2b 3 1 0 0
Lynn cf 4 2 1 2
Rice lf 5 1 2 2
Fisk dh 5 2 3 0
Yastrzemski 1b 3 2 2 3
Hobson 3b 4 0 1 0
Evans rf 3 1 2 0
Allenson c 3 0 1 1
Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 9 12 8
Texas 000 010 0113111
Boston 312 100 11x9121
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  L (3-3) 1.0 5 4 3 1 1
  Medich   6.0 6 4 4 3 6
  Lyle   1.0 1 1 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
12
9
8
5
7
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eckersley  W (5-3) 9.0 11 3 3 0 5
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
0
5

  E–Medich (1), Eckersley (3).  DP–Texas 1.  2B–Texas Grubb (7,off Eckersley), Boston Allenson (3,off Matlack); Evans (7,off Medich); Rice (11,off Medich).  3B–Boston Fisk (1,off Matlack).  HR–Boston Lynn (15,1st inning off Matlack 1 on, 1 out); Yastrzemski (9,3rd inning off Medich 1 on, 0 out); Rice (9,8th inning off Lyle 0 on, 2 out).  SF–Allenson (1,off Medich).  U-HP–Ted Hendry, 1B–Fred Spenn, 2B–Larry Barnett, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:22.  A–27,670.
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