Texas Rangers vs Kansas City Royals
August 31, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1980 at Royals Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Texas Rangers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 3, Kansas City Royals 4

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 4 1 2 0
Sample rf 4 1 2 2
  Grubb ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Oliver lf 4 0 1 0
Zisk dh 4 1 1 1
Ellis 1b 3 0 0 0
  Putnam ph,1b 1 0 1 0
Roberts 3b 4 0 0 0
Sundberg c 4 0 1 0
Richardt 2b 4 0 2 0
Frias ss 3 0 0 0
Clay p 0 0 0 0
  Lyle p 0 0 0 0
  Darwin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 10 3
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson lf,cf 4 0 1 1
McRae dh 3 0 1 0
Brett 3b 3 0 0 0
Aikens 1b 4 0 0 0
  LaCock pr,1b 0 0 0 0
  Chalk ph 1 0 0 0
  Porter c 0 0 0 0
Otis cf 1 1 0 0
  Cardenal lf 2 0 0 0
Hurdle rf 5 1 1 0
Wathan c 0 0 0 0
  Quirk pr,c,1b 3 0 2 1
White 2b 3 2 1 1
Mulliniks ss 2 0 1 1
  Washington ph,ss 0 0 0 0
Splittorff p 0 0 0 0
  Quisenberry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 7 4
Texas 000 000 0303101
Kansas City 010 110 001470
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Clay   4.2 4 3 3 7 0
  Lyle  L (3-2) 3.2 2 1 1 3 1
  Darwin   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.1
7
4
4
10
1
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Splittorff   7.2 8 3 3 0 2
  Quisenberry  W (11-5) 1.1 2 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
10
3
3
1
2

  E–Richardt (1).  2B–Texas Oliver (33,off Splittorff); Putnam (15,off Quisenberry), Kansas City Mulliniks (2,off Clay); Hurdle (27,off Lyle).  HR–Texas Sample (3,8th inning off Splittorff 1 on, 1 out); Zisk (19,8th inning off Splittorff 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Frias (12,off Splittorff); Wilson (5,off Lyle).  IBB–Rivers (1,by Quisenberry); McRae (4,by Lyle); Quirk (2,by Lyle).  HBP–Otis (3,by Clay); Wathan (3,by Clay).  SB–White 2 (15,2nd base off Clay/Sundberg 2); Wilson (57,2nd base off Clay/Sundberg); Otis (10,2nd base off Clay/Sundberg).  CS–Quirk (2,2nd base by Lyle/Sundberg).  WP–Clay (5).  HBP–Clay 2 (3,Otis,Wathan).  IBB–Lyle 2 (6,McRae,Quirk); Quisenberry (11,Rivers).  U-HP–Mark Johnson, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–Dan Morrison, 3B–Ken Kaiser.  T–2:41.  A–37,390.
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