Texas Rangers vs Kansas City Royals
June 16, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 16, 1980 at Royals Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the Kansas City Royals 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 6, Kansas City Royals 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 0 0 0
Wills 2b 4 1 2 0
Oliver lf 4 0 1 0
Zisk dh 4 0 2 1
  Hart pr,dh 0 1 0 0
Staub 1b 4 0 2 1
  Frias pr,ss 0 1 0 0
Sample rf 2 0 0 0
  Norris ph,rf 2 1 1 1
Sundberg c 4 1 1 1
Roberts 3b 2 0 0 0
  Grubb ph 1 0 0 0
  Ashford 3b 1 0 1 1
Harrelson ss 2 0 0 0
  Putnam ph,1b 2 1 2 1
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Babcock p 0 0 0 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 12 6
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson lf 4 2 2 0
Washington ss 3 0 0 0
McRae dh 3 0 2 1
Otis cf 2 0 0 1
Porter c 4 0 0 0
Wathan rf 4 0 0 0
Aikens 1b 4 1 2 1
  Barranca pr 0 0 0 0
White 2b 4 0 0 0
Chalk 3b 3 0 0 0
Splittorff p 0 0 0 0
  Quisenberry p 0 0 0 0
  Christenson p 0 0 0 0
  Eastwick p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 6 3
Texas 000 000 0066120
Kansas City 100 000 110360
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack   7.2 5 3 3 3 0
  Babcock  W (1-2) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Lyle  SV (7) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
3
1
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Splittorff   7.0 4 0 0 0 1
  Quisenberry  L (4-3) 1.2 4 4 4 0 2
  Christenson   0.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Eastwick   0.1 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
6
6
0
3

  E–None.  DP–Texas 1, Kansas City 2.  2B–Kansas City Wilson (13,off Matlack).  HR–Kansas City Aikens (7,7th inning off Matlack 0 on, 2 out).  SF–Otis (4,off Matlack).  SB–Wilson (27,2nd base off Matlack/Sundberg); Washington (12,2nd base off Matlack/Sundberg); McRae (3,2nd base off Matlack/Sundberg).  U-HP–Dale Ford, 1B–Terry Cooney, 2B–Ken Kaiser, 3B–Fred Spenn.  T–2:25.  A–39,457.
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