Texas Rangers vs Boston Red Sox
April 20, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 20, 1980 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 5, Boston Red Sox 6

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 4 1 1 2
Wills 2b 5 0 0 0
Oliver rf 4 1 1 0
Bell 3b 5 2 1 1
Staub dh 4 0 2 1
  Sample ph,dh 1 0 1 0
Zisk lf 5 0 1 1
Putnam 1b 4 0 0 0
Sundberg c 2 1 1 0
Norman ss 2 0 0 0
  Norris ph 0 0 0 0
  Frias ss 1 0 0 0
Medich p 0 0 0 0
  Devine p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 5 8 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 6 0 2 1
Burleson ss 5 1 0 0
Lynn cf 5 0 1 0
Rice lf 5 0 1 0
Yastrzemski dh 6 1 3 1
Perez 1b 4 1 1 0
  Dwyer pr,1b 0 0 0 0
Fisk c 4 1 1 0
Brohamer 3b 5 1 3 2
Evans rf 5 1 3 2
Rainey p 0 0 0 0
  Drago p 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
Totals 45 6 15 6
Texas 002 102 000 00580
Boston 040 001 000 016150
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Medich   2.1 5 4 4 1 1
  Devine   2.2 5 1 1 0 1
  Kern  L (1-1) 5.1 5 1 1 4 3
Totals
10.1
15
6
6
5
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Rainey   5.1 5 5 5 2 3
  Drago   1.0 1 0 0 3 0
  Burgmeier  W (1-0) 4.2 2 0 0 0 3
Totals
11.0
8
5
5
5
6

  E–None.  DP–Boston 3.  PB–Sundberg (3).  2B–Texas Oliver (6,off Rainey); Bell (4,off Rainey); Sundberg (3,off Burgmeier), Boston Brohamer (1,off Medich); Evans 2 (3,off Medich,off Kern); Perez (2,off Kern).  3B–Boston Rice (1,off Medich).  HR–Texas Rivers (1,3rd inning off Rainey 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Sundberg (1,off Drago).  IBB–Lynn (1,by Kern); Rice (1,by Kern).  WP–Medich (1).  IBB–Kern 2 (2,Lynn,Rice).  U-HP–Joe Brinkman, 1B–Nick Bremigan, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Marty Springstead.  T–3:23.  A–23,696.
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