California Angels vs Texas Rangers
June 26, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 26, 1979 at Arlington Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the California Angels 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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California Angels 1, Texas Rangers 2

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Rettenmund dh 3 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 4 0 3 0
Ford cf 4 0 0 0
Baylor lf 4 0 0 0
Downing c 4 0 1 0
Grich 2b 3 0 2 0
Rudi rf 3 0 0 0
Aikens 1b 3 0 0 0
Anderson ss 3 1 1 1
Aase p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 7 1
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 3 0 0 0
Bell 3b 4 0 1 0
Gamble rf 3 0 0 0
Ellis dh 4 0 0 0
Putnam 1b 3 1 2 0
Sample lf 3 1 2 1
Grubb cf 3 0 0 1
Sundberg c 0 0 0 0
  Roberts pr,c 0 0 0 0
Blanks ss 2 0 1 0
  Oliver ph 1 0 0 0
  Norman ss 0 0 0 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 2 6 2
California 001 000 000170
Texas 010 000 01x260
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Aase  L (6-6) 8.0 6 2 2 4 8
Totals
8.0
6
2
2
4
8
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  W (5-4) 8.2 7 1 1 2 9
  Kern  SV (12) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
2
9

  E–None.  DP–California 1, Texas 2.  2B–California Lansford (15,off Matlack); Grich (18,off Matlack), Texas Bell (19,off Aase); Putnam (12,off Aase).  HR–California Anderson (1,3rd inning off Matlack 0 on, 1 out), Texas Sample (2,8th inning off Aase 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Grich (8,off Matlack); Wills (5,off Aase); Sample (5,off Aase).  IBB–Rudi (2,by Matlack); Gamble (7,by Aase).  SF–Grubb (2,off Aase).  HBP–Sundberg (3,by Aase).  HBP–Aase (1,Sundberg).  IBB–Aase (4,Gamble); Matlack (1,Rudi).  U-HP–Terry Cooney, 1B–Bill Kunkel, 2B–John Shulock, 3B–Dale Ford.  T–2:16.  A–28,695.
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