Texas Rangers vs Detroit Tigers
August 17, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 17, 1980 at Tiger 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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Texas Rangers 9, Detroit Tigers 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 0 1 0
  Norris cf 0 0 0 0
Wills 2b 4 2 2 1
Oliver lf 5 3 3 3
  Sample lf 0 0 0 0
Bell 3b 3 2 1 1
Zisk dh 5 0 2 2
Putnam 1b 3 0 0 1
Grubb rf 3 1 1 0
Sundberg c 3 0 0 0
Frias ss 4 1 1 1
Jenkins p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 9 11 9
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Peters cf 3 0 0 0
Whitaker 2b 4 1 1 0
Kemp lf 4 2 1 1
Hebner 1b 4 0 2 1
  Corcoran 1b 0 0 0 0
Summers dh 4 0 1 1
Wockenfuss c 4 0 0 0
Cowens rf 3 0 1 0
Brookens 3b 2 0 0 0
  Papi 3b 2 0 0 0
Wagner ss 3 0 0 0
Fidrych p 0 0 0 0
  Ujdur p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 6 3
Texas 000 150 3009111
Detroit 000 102 000360
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Jenkins  W (11-10) 9.0 6 3 2 2 9
Totals
9.0
6
3
2
2
9
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Fidrych  L (0-2) 4.2 5 6 6 3 2
  Ujdur   2.1 5 3 3 1 1
  Lopez   2.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
9
9
4
3

  E–Wills (10).  DP–Texas 1.  PB–Wockenfuss (3).  2B–Texas Zisk 2 (12,off Ujdur 2); Oliver (28,off Ujdur).  3B–Texas Oliver (2,off Fidrych).  HR–Texas Oliver (10,4th inning off Fidrych 0 on, 0 out), Detroit Kemp (15,4th inning off Jenkins 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Sundberg (5,off Fidrych).  SF–Putnam (4,off Ujdur).  SB–Frias (3,2nd base off Fidrych/Wockenfuss); Wills (30,2nd base off Fidrych/Wockenfuss).  CS–Grubb (2,2nd base by Ujdur/Wockenfuss).  WP–Fidrych (1).  U-HP–Derryl Cousins, 1B–Marty Springstead, 2B–Joe Brinkman, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–2:20.
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