California Angels vs Texas Rangers
June 28, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 28, 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 4, Texas Rangers 14

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Grich 2b 1 0 0 0
  Thon 2b 2 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 4 1 1 1
Ford rf 3 0 0 0
  Davis rf 1 1 1 0
Baylor dh 4 2 2 1
Aikens 1b 3 0 0 1
Downing c 2 0 0 0
  Donohue c 2 0 0 0
Rudi lf 3 0 0 0
Harlow cf 3 0 0 0
Anderson ss 3 0 1 0
Barr p 0 0 0 0
  Botting p 0 0 0 0
  Eddy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 5 3
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 6 1 4 2
Bell 3b 4 0 1 2
Gamble rf 3 1 1 1
  Washington cf 3 1 1 0
Putnam 1b 3 2 1 0
Soderholm dh 4 2 3 0
Sample lf 5 2 1 4
Grubb cf,rf 5 2 2 1
Roberts c 5 2 4 2
Norman ss 5 1 2 1
Jenkins p 0 0 0 0
Totals 43 14 20 13
California 000 001 102451
Texas 840 000 11x14200
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Barr  L (3-4) 0.1 5 5 5 0 0
  Botting   0.2 7 7 6 0 0
  Eddy   7.0 8 2 2 2 2
Totals
8.0
20
14
13
2
2
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Jenkins  W (8-4) 9.0 5 4 4 1 8
Totals
9.0
5
4
4
1
8

  E–Anderson (2).  2B–California Baylor (19,off Jenkins), Texas Wills (8,off Botting); Soderholm 2 (11,off Botting,off Eddy); Norman (4,off Eddy).  HR–California Lansford (10,6th inning off Jenkins 0 on, 2 out); Baylor (13,7th inning off Jenkins 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Aikens (3,off Jenkins); Bell 2 (7,off Botting,off Eddy).  HBP–Putnam (4,by Eddy).  WP–Jenkins (1).  HBP–Eddy (2,Putnam).  U-HP–John Shulock, 1B–Dale Ford, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–Bill Kunkel.  T–2:24.  A–29,101.
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