Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics
May 25, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 25, 1980 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 7, Oakland Athletics 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 4 0 1 1
Wills 2b 4 1 1 1
Oliver lf 3 1 1 0
Bell 3b 5 1 1 1
Ellis dh 4 1 2 2
  Sample pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Grubb rf 3 1 1 0
  Walton ph 1 0 0 0
  Putnam 1b 1 0 0 0
Sundberg c 3 1 1 2
Norris 1b,rf 3 1 2 0
Harrelson ss 3 0 1 0
Medich p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 7 11 7
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 5 2 2 0
Murphy cf 4 1 2 2
Revering 1b 3 0 1 0
Page dh 3 0 1 1
Gross 3b 4 0 1 0
Armas rf 3 0 0 0
Heath c 4 0 0 0
Guerrero ss 3 0 0 0
  Newman ph 1 0 0 0
  McKay 2b 0 0 0 0
Picciolo 2b 2 0 0 0
  Davis ph 1 0 0 0
  Klutts 2b,ss 1 0 0 0
Norris p 0 0 0 0
  Hamilton p 0 0 0 0
  Camacho p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 7 3
Texas 200 013 0017110
Oakland 001 000 200371
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Medich  W (4-2) 6.1 7 3 3 3 6
  Kern  SV (2) 2.2 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
4
8
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Norris  L (5-3) 6.0 10 6 6 2 4
  Hamilton   2.1 1 1 1 2 4
  Camacho   0.2 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
11
7
7
5
8

  E–Revering (6).  DP–Oakland 2.  2B–Texas Ellis (3,off Norris); Rivers (9,off Norris).  HR–Oakland Murphy (4,7th inning off Medich 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Rivers (1,off Norris); Norris (1,off Norris).  HBP–Oliver (3,by Hamilton).  IBB–Oliver (3,by Norris).  CS–Harrelson (1,Home by Norris/Heath).  SB–Henderson (20,2nd base off Medich/Sundberg).  WP–Camacho (1).  BK–Hamilton (1).  HBP–Hamilton (3,Oliver).  IBB–Norris (1,Oliver).  U-HP–Vic Voltaggio, 1B–Bill Haller, 2B–Russ Goetz, 3B–George Maloney.  T–3:01.  A–10,549.
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