Detroit Tigers vs Texas Rangers
April 21, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 21, 1980 at Arlington Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 2, Texas Rangers 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 3 0 1 0
Trammell ss 4 0 0 0
Kemp lf 3 0 0 0
Parrish 1b 4 1 1 0
Wockenfuss dh 4 0 1 0
  Gibson pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Brookens 3b 4 1 3 0
Stegman cf 3 0 1 2
Dyer c 3 0 0 0
  Jones ph 1 0 0 0
Peters rf 3 0 0 0
Wilcox p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 4 0 0 0
Wills 2b 3 1 1 0
Oliver rf 4 1 2 1
Bell 3b 3 0 2 1
Staub 1b 4 0 0 0
  Putnam 1b 0 0 0 0
Zisk dh 2 0 0 0
Grubb lf 3 0 0 0
Sundberg c 3 1 1 1
Norman ss 3 0 0 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 6 3
Detroit 010 000 001270
Texas 100 010 10x360
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Wilcox  L (0-1) 8.0 6 3 3 3 3
Totals
8.0
6
3
3
3
3
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  W (2-0) 8.1 6 2 2 2 8
  Lyle  SV (2) 0.2 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
3
8

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1, Texas 1.  2B–Detroit Stegman (2,off Matlack).  HR–Texas Sundberg (2,7th inning off Wilcox 0 on, 0 out).  SB–Brookens (1,2nd base off Matlack/Sundberg); Oliver (2,2nd base off Wilcox/Dyer); Wills 2 (5,2nd base off Wilcox/Dyer 2).  CS–Whitaker (1,2nd base by Matlack/Sundberg).  U-HP–Don Denkinger, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Dale Ford, 3B–Greg Kosc.  T–2:14.  A–14,834.
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