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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Texas Rangers 12, Detroit Tigers 6

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 1 1 0
Wills 2b 3 2 1 1
Oliver lf 4 3 3 4
Bell 3b 4 1 0 0
Zisk dh 5 0 2 0
  Sample pr,dh 0 1 0 0
Putnam 1b 5 1 2 4
Grubb rf 4 0 1 0
Roberts c 5 2 3 1
Frias ss 4 1 2 1
Medich p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 12 15 11
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Peters cf 4 2 1 0
Whitaker 2b 4 0 0 0
Kemp dh 4 1 2 1
Hebner 1b 5 1 1 3
Summers lf 3 0 0 0
  Lentine lf 0 1 0 0
Parrish c 3 1 2 1
Corcoran rf 3 0 1 1
Brookens 3b 4 0 0 0
Wagner ss 3 0 1 0
Wilcox p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 6 8 6
Texas 310 010 30412150
Detroit 000 000 141682
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Medich  W (10-7) 7.2 5 5 4 6 3
  Kern   1.0 3 1 1 1 1
  Johnson   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
6
5
7
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Wilcox  L (11-8) 7.0 8 8 7 3 2
  Lopez   2.0 7 4 4 1 0
Totals
9.0
15
12
11
4
2

  E–Peters (4), Wilcox (3).  DP–Texas 2.  PB–Roberts (2).  2B–Texas Rivers (26,off Wilcox); Putnam (14,off Wilcox), Detroit Corcoran (3,off Medich).  3B–Detroit Parrish (4,off Medich).  HR–Texas Oliver 3 (13,5th inning off Wilcox 0 on, 1 out,7th inning off Wilcox 1 on, 1 out,9th inning off Lopez 0 on, 0 out), Detroit Hebner (11,8th inning off Medich 2 on, 2 out).  SH–Frias (10,off Wilcox); Rivers (6,off Wilcox).  SF–Wills (7,off Wilcox).  IBB–Bell (9,by Wilcox); Oliver (6,by Wilcox).  SB–Sample (6,2nd base off Lopez/Parrish).  IBB–Wilcox 2 (5,Bell,Oliver).  U-HP–Marty Springstead, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Derryl Cousins.  T–2:50.  A–42,117.
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