Texas Rangers vs California Angels
September 14, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 14, 1980 at Anaheim Stadium. The California Angels defeated the Texas Rangers 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 1, California Angels 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 4 0 0 0
Sample rf 4 0 2 0
Oliver lf 3 0 1 0
Zisk dh 2 0 0 0
  Staub ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Ellis 1b 2 0 0 0
  Putnam ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Roberts 3b 4 1 1 1
Sundberg c 4 0 0 0
Richardt 2b 4 0 0 0
Davis ss 2 0 0 0
  Bell ph 1 0 0 0
  Harrelson ss 0 0 0 0
  Norris ph 1 0 0 0
Clay p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 4 1
California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Thon ss 4 1 2 0
Kubski rf 3 0 1 0
Lansford 3b 4 0 0 0
Thompson dh 4 0 1 1
Harris 1b 2 1 0 0
Grich 2b 3 0 1 0
Miller cf 4 0 1 1
Clark lf 4 1 1 1
Whitmer c 3 0 1 0
Tanana p 0 0 0 0
  Clear p 0 0 0 0
  Hassler p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 8 3
Texas 010 000 000140
California 100 101 00x382
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Clay  L (2-2) 6.0 8 3 3 3 3
  Johnson   2.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
8
3
3
4
5
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Tanana  W (9-10) 7.1 4 1 1 3 4
  Clear   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Hassler  SV (8) 1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
3
5

  E–Thon 2 (7).  2B–Texas Sample (6,off Tanana), California Whitmer (3,off Clay).  HR–Texas Roberts (8,2nd inning off Tanana 0 on, 1 out), California Clark (5,6th inning off Clay 0 on, 2 out).  SB–Lansford (12,2nd base off Clay/Sundberg).  WP–Clay 2 (7).  U-HP–Mike Reilly, 1B–Dallas Parks, 2B–Rocky Roe, 3B–Jerry Neudecker.  T–2:30.  A–28,561.
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