Texas Rangers vs Boston Red Sox
July 21, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 21, 1980 at Fenway Park. The Texas Rangers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 1 1 0
Wills 2b 5 1 3 0
Oliver lf 5 1 1 1
Bell 3b 5 0 1 2
Staub dh 3 1 2 0
Putnam 1b 4 1 2 0
Grubb rf 4 0 2 0
Sundberg c 3 0 1 2
Frias ss 4 0 1 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Darwin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 14 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burleson ss 3 0 2 0
Stapleton 2b 4 0 1 0
Lynn cf 4 0 0 0
Perez 1b 4 0 0 0
Fisk c 4 1 1 1
Yastrzemski lf 4 1 1 0
Evans rf 4 1 2 2
Hobson dh 3 0 0 0
Wolfe 3b 2 0 0 0
  Dwyer ph 1 0 0 0
  Allenson 3b 0 0 0 0
Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
  Lockwood p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 7 3
Texas 021 000 2005141
Boston 000 000 102372
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  W (7-5) 7.0 4 1 1 2 4
  Darwin   2.0 3 2 2 0 3
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
2
7
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eckersley  L (5-9) 2.0 6 3 3 0 0
  Stanley   4.2 7 2 2 1 0
  Lockwood   1.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Campbell   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
14
5
5
2
0

  E–Grubb (2), Fisk (3), Eckersley (3).  DP–Texas 1, Boston 2.  2B–Texas Bell (16,off Stanley); Wills (20,off Campbell), Boston Burleson (21,off Darwin).  HR–Boston Fisk (12,7th inning off Matlack 0 on, 1 out); Evans (8,9th inning off Darwin 1 on, 2 out).  SB–Wills 2 (27,2nd base off Stanley/Fisk,3rd base off Campbell/Fisk).  CS–Oliver (6,2nd base by Stanley/Fisk).  U-HP–Dave Phillips, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Rick Reed, 3B–Steve Palermo.  T–2:34.  A–24,953.
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