Texas Rangers vs New York Yankees
August 5, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 5, 1980 at Yankee Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the New York Yankees 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 8, New York Yankees 1

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 2 2 2
Wills 2b 3 1 3 2
Oliver lf 4 0 3 1
Bell 3b 5 1 1 1
Zisk dh 5 1 3 2
Ellis 1b 3 0 0 0
  Putnam ph,1b 2 0 0 0
Sample rf 3 0 0 0
  Norris ph,rf 2 0 1 0
Sundberg c 3 2 2 0
Frias ss 3 1 1 0
Jenkins p 0 0 0 0
  Darwin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 8 16 8
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Randolph 2b 5 1 3 0
Jones cf 5 0 0 0
Gamble dh 4 0 0 0
Jackson rf 3 0 1 1
Spencer 1b 4 0 2 0
Soderholm 3b 4 0 0 0
Cerone c 3 0 1 0
  Oates c 1 0 0 0
Dent ss 3 0 0 0
  Stanley ss 0 0 0 0
  Murcer ph 1 0 1 0
Brown lf 4 0 2 0
John p 0 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Bird p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 1 10 1
Texas 420 101 0008160
New York 001 000 0001100
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Jenkins  W (10-9) 8.2 10 1 1 1 3
  Darwin   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
1
1
1
4
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
John  L (15-5) 6.0 11 8 8 2 0
  Davis   2.0 3 0 0 2 0
  Bird   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
16
8
8
4
0

  E–None.  DP–New York 2.  2B–Texas Wills (21,off John); Rivers (23,off John); Norris (4,off Davis).  3B–Texas Frias (1,off John), New York Jackson (1,off Jenkins).  HR–Texas Rivers (4,1st inning off John 0 on, 0 out); Zisk (15,1st inning off John 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Frias 2 (9,off John 2).  HBP–Wills (3,by John).  SB–Randolph (22,2nd base off Jenkins/Sundberg).  HBP–John (4,Wills).  U-HP–Dan Morrison, 1B–Al Clark, 2B–Steve Palermo, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–2:33.  A–38,337.
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