Texas Rangers vs New York Yankees
April 9, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 9, 1981 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees 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 3, New York Yankees 10

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 5 1 1 0
Rivers cf 4 1 0 0
Oliver dh 5 0 1 1
Bell 3b 5 0 2 0
Sample lf 2 1 0 1
Grubb rf 3 0 1 0
Putnam 1b 4 0 2 0
Sundberg c 3 0 1 1
Mendoza ss 2 0 0 0
  Ellis ph 1 0 0 0
  Wagner ss 0 0 0 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Comer p 0 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 8 3
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Randolph 2b 4 0 2 0
Mumphrey cf 5 0 1 0
Winfield lf 3 1 2 0
Watson 1b 4 2 2 0
Piniella rf 4 2 2 1
Cerone c 4 0 1 2
Nettles 3b 4 2 0 0
Werth dh 2 1 0 0
  Murcer ph,dh 1 1 1 4
Dent ss 4 1 3 3
John p 0 0 0 0
  Underwood p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 10 14 10
Texas 011 010 000380
New York 032 000 50x10141
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  L (0-1) 5.2 8 5 5 4 2
  Comer   1.0 5 5 5 1 0
  Hough   1.1 1 0 0 2 1
Totals
8.0
14
10
10
7
3
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
John  W (1-0) 8.0 7 3 2 4 2
  Underwood   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
3
2
4
2

  E–Mumphrey (1).  DP–Texas 1.  2B–Texas Grubb (1,off John), New York Piniella (1,off Matlack); Cerone (1,off Matlack).  3B–New York Randolph (1,off Comer).  HR–New York Dent (1,2nd inning off Matlack 2 on, 2 out); Murcer (1,7th inning off Comer 3 on, 1 out).  SF–Sample (1,off John).  HBP–Sample (1,by John).  SH–Cerone (1,off Comer).  IBB–Nettles (1,by Comer).  SB–Mumphrey (1,2nd base off Matlack/Sundberg).  CS–Dent (1,2nd base by Matlack/Sundberg).  WP–John 2 (2).  HBP–John (1,Sample).  IBB–Comer (1,Nettles).  U-HP–Dave Phillips, 1B–Jerry Neudecker, 2B–Larry McCoy, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–2:48.  A–55,123.
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