Texas Rangers vs Boston Red Sox
April 21, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 21, 1981 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox 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 4, Boston Red Sox 10

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 3 2 1 0
Rivers cf 4 0 1 1
Oliver dh 4 0 2 2
Bell 3b 4 0 1 0
Ellis 1b 4 0 1 0
Sundberg c 4 1 1 0
Roberts rf 3 1 0 0
Sample lf 4 0 2 0
Mendoza ss 3 0 0 0
Jenkins p 0 0 0 0
  Comer p 0 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 9 3
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 4 2 2 1
Evans rf 2 1 1 2
Yastrzemski dh 4 0 2 3
Rice lf 5 1 2 0
Perez 1b 4 1 1 0
Lansford 3b 4 1 3 2
Allenson c 4 2 2 1
Hoffman ss 4 0 1 1
Miller cf 3 2 1 0
Tudor p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 10 15 10
Texas 001 001 011490
Boston 010 123 03x10151
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Jenkins  L (1-1) 5.0 8 6 6 3 2
  Comer   1.0 2 1 1 1 0
  Hough   2.0 5 3 3 1 1
Totals
8.0
15
10
10
5
3
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Tudor  W (1-0) 9.0 9 4 3 2 2
Totals
9.0
9
4
3
2
2

  E–Hoffman (4).  DP–Texas 2, Boston 1.  2B–Texas Oliver (3,off Tudor); Wills (2,off Tudor); Sundberg (2,off Tudor), Boston Allenson 2 (4,off Jenkins,off Comer); Rice (1,off Jenkins); Lansford (4,off Jenkins); Miller (3,off Hough); Evans (1,off Hough).  3B–Boston Perez (1,off Jenkins).  SH–Mendoza (3,off Tudor).  SF–Evans (1,off Jenkins).  CS–Bell (2,2nd base by Tudor/Allenson).  SB–Lansford (2,2nd base off Hough/Sundberg).  U-HP–Russ Goetz, 1B–George Maloney, 2B–Ken Kaiser, 3B–Bill Haller.  T–2:32.  A–13,233.
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