Boston Red Sox vs Texas Rangers
August 2, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 2, 1980 at Arlington Stadium. 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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Boston Red Sox 1, Texas Rangers 0

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burleson ss 3 0 1 0
Stapleton 2b 4 0 0 0
Lynn cf 4 0 0 0
Perez 1b 4 0 0 0
Rice lf 3 1 1 0
Fisk c 4 0 0 0
Dwyer dh 3 0 2 1
Evans rf 3 0 1 0
Hoffman 3b 3 0 2 0
Ojeda p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 7 1
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 4 0 2 0
Wills 2b 4 0 1 0
Oliver lf 3 0 1 0
Bell 3b 3 0 0 0
Ellis dh 2 0 0 0
  Grubb ph,dh 2 0 1 0
Staub 1b,rf 4 0 0 0
Sample rf 2 0 1 0
  Putnam ph,1b 2 0 0 0
Sundberg c 3 0 1 0
Frias ss 2 0 0 0
  Norris ph 1 0 1 0
  Roberts ss 0 0 0 0
Figueroa p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
  Darwin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 8 0
Boston 010 000 000170
Texas 000 000 000080
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ojeda  W (1-1) 6.0 5 0 0 1 4
  Stanley  SV (2) 3.0 3 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
8
0
0
2
4
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Figueroa  L (3-4) 7.0 7 1 1 1 3
  Johnson   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Darwin   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
1
3

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2, Texas 2.  2B–Boston Rice (10,off Figueroa).  SH–Burleson (5,off Johnson).  IBB–Oliver (5,by Stanley).  SB–Rivers (17,2nd base off Stanley/Fisk).  CS–Sample (5,2nd base by Ojeda/Fisk).  IBB–Stanley (5,Oliver).  U-HP–Ted Hendry, 1B–John Shulock, 2B–Bill Kunkel, 3B–Dan Morrison.  T–2:35.  A–24,722.
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