Texas Rangers vs New York Yankees
April 12, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 12, 1981 at Yankee Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the New York Yankees 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 6, New York Yankees 4

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 4 2 2 1
Rivers cf 4 1 3 2
Oliver dh 5 0 1 2
Bell 3b 5 0 1 0
Sample lf 4 0 0 0
Grubb rf 4 0 0 0
Putnam 1b 4 0 1 0
Sundberg c 4 1 2 0
Mendoza ss 4 2 2 0
Jenkins p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 12 5
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Randolph 2b 5 0 0 0
Mumphrey cf 5 1 2 1
Winfield lf 5 0 1 0
Gamble rf 2 1 2 0
  Watson ph 1 0 0 0
Murcer dh 2 0 1 1
  Piniella ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Spencer 1b 2 0 1 0
  Werth ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Nettles 3b 4 1 1 1
Cerone c 3 0 0 0
Dent ss 4 1 1 1
Guidry p 0 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Castro p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 9 4
Texas 000 030 3006121
New York 101 100 010490
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Jenkins  W (1-0) 6.2 7 3 3 4 4
  Johnson   2.0 2 1 1 0 1
  Kern  SV (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
4
5
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Guidry  L (0-1) 6.0 9 6 6 2 3
  Davis   2.0 1 0 0 0 3
  Castro   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
6
6
2
6

  E–Putnam (1).  DP–Texas 1.  PB–Cerone (1).  2B–Texas Mendoza (1,off Guidry); Wills (1,off Guidry), New York Gamble (1,off Jenkins).  HR–New York Mumphrey (1,1st inning off Jenkins 0 on, 1 out); Dent (2,4th inning off Jenkins 0 on, 1 out); Nettles (2,8th inning off J Johnson 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Cerone (2,off Jenkins).  SB–Rivers (1,2nd base off Guidry/Cerone).  WP–Guidry (1).  BK–Davis (1).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Durwood Merrill, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Jerry Neudecker.  T–2:36.  A–30,079.
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