Detroit Tigers vs Texas Rangers
August 9, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1980 at Arlington Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 3, Texas Rangers 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Lentine cf 5 2 1 1
Trammell ss 2 0 0 0
  Whitaker 2b 1 0 0 0
Kemp lf 5 0 3 1
Wockenfuss 1b 3 0 1 1
  Corcoran 1b 1 0 0 0
Parrish dh 5 0 1 0
Cowens rf 4 0 1 0
Brookens 3b 4 1 1 0
Dyer c 3 0 0 0
Papi 2b 3 0 0 0
  Wagner ss 1 0 0 0
Schatzeder p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 8 3
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 0 2 2
Wills 2b 5 0 0 0
Oliver lf 5 0 1 0
Bell 3b,ss 5 2 3 0
Zisk dh 5 1 3 0
Ellis 1b 3 0 0 0
  Putnam ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Staub rf 4 0 2 1
  Sample pr,rf 0 1 0 0
  Grubb ph 0 0 0 1
Sundberg c 4 0 1 0
Frias ss 0 0 0 0
  Roberts ph,ss 3 0 0 0
  Norris ph,1b 0 0 0 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Darwin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 4 12 4
Detroit 100 000 200 0380
Texas 000 000 003 14123
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Schatzeder   8.0 8 2 2 0 4
  Lopez  L (8-4) 1.2 4 2 2 2 1
Totals
9.2
12
4
4
2
5
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack   7.1 7 3 1 3 6
  Darwin  W (10-1) 2.2 1 0 0 0 5
Totals
10.0
8
3
1
3
11

  E–Bell (6), Frias 2 (15).  DP–Texas 1.  2B–Detroit Lentine (7,off Matlack); Parrish (25,off Matlack); Kemp (13,off Darwin), Texas Rivers (24,off Schatzeder); Staub (18,off Lopez).  SH–Dyer (4,off Matlack).  SF–Grubb (2,off Lopez).  IBB–Putnam (4,by Lopez).  CS–Trammell (10,2nd base by Matlack/Sundberg).  IBB–Lopez (3,Putnam).  U-HP–Dan Morrison, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Mark Johnson, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–3:08.  A–19,021.
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