Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics
September 19, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 19, 1979 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Texas Rangers defeated the Oakland Athletics 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 9, Oakland Athletics 4

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 2 3 2
Wills 2b 5 2 4 0
Oliver lf 4 1 1 1
Bell 3b 5 2 4 3
Montanez 1b 5 0 3 1
Sample rf 5 0 1 1
Putnam dh 3 1 1 0
  Ellis ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Sundberg c 2 1 0 1
Norman ss 5 0 1 0
Alexander p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 9 18 9
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 4 0 1 1
Murphy cf 4 0 2 0
Revering 1b 4 0 0 0
Essian c 4 0 1 0
Gross 3b 1 1 0 0
  Chalk 3b 2 0 0 0
Page dh 4 1 1 0
Edwards 2b 4 0 1 0
Bryant rf 3 1 1 1
Picciolo ss 4 1 1 2
Kingman p 0 0 0 0
  Norris p 0 0 0 0
  Hamilton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 8 4
Texas 006 010 0209180
Oakland 030 000 001480
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Alexander  W (5-7) 6.1 5 3 3 3 4
  Kern   2.2 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
3
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Kingman  L (7-6) 2.1 7 6 6 1 1
  Norris   4.2 6 1 1 4 4
  Hamilton   2.0 5 2 2 1 0
Totals
9.0
18
9
9
6
5

  E–None.  2B–Texas Sample (20,off Norris); Norman (9,off Hamilton), Oakland Picciolo (14,off Alexander).  HBP–Oliver (4,by Hamilton).  IBB–Putnam (5,by Norris).  CS–Wills 2 (11,2nd base by Kingman/Essian,2nd base by Norris/Essian).  SB–Henderson 2 (29,2nd base off Alexander/Sundberg,3rd base off Alexander/Sundberg).  WP–Kern (5), Kingman (9).  HBP–Hamilton (1,Oliver).  IBB–Norris (8,Putnam).  U-HP–Ted Hendry, 1B–Larry Barnett, 2B–(none), 3B–Fred Spenn.  T–2:51.  A–1,037.
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