Texas Rangers vs Detroit Tigers
August 7, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 7, 1979 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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, Detroit Tigers 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 4 0 0 0
Bell ss 4 1 2 0
Oliver lf 4 0 2 1
Zisk rf 4 0 1 0
Putnam 1b 4 0 0 0
Ellis dh 4 0 2 0
  Sample pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Soderholm 3b 4 0 2 0
Sundberg c 4 0 0 0
Blanks 2b 3 0 1 0
Comer p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 10 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 0 0 0
Whitaker 2b 3 1 1 0
Kemp lf 4 1 1 2
Thompson 1b 3 1 1 1
Summers dh 3 0 0 0
Morales rf 3 0 1 0
Parrish c 3 0 0 0
Rodriguez 3b 3 0 1 0
  Brookens pr,3b 0 0 0 0
Trammell ss 2 0 0 0
Wilcox p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 5 3
Texas 001 000 0001101
Detroit 010 000 002350
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Comer   7.1 4 1 1 0 2
  Kern  L (10-3) 0.2 1 2 2 1 0
Totals
8.0
5
3
3
1
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Wilcox  W (9-5) 9.0 10 1 1 0 4
Totals
9.0
10
1
1
0
4

  E–Soderholm (5).  DP–Texas 1, Detroit 1.  2B–Texas Bell (29,off Wilcox); Oliver (17,off Wilcox); Blanks (5,off Wilcox), Detroit Morales (17,off Comer).  HR–Detroit Thompson (11,2nd inning off Comer 0 on, 0 out); Kemp (19,9th inning off Kern 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Trammell (9,off Kern).  CS–Bell (3,2nd base by Wilcox/Parrish).  U-HP–Bill Deegan, 1B–John Shulock, 2B–Jerry Neudecker, 3B–Mark Johnson.  T–2:25.
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