Chicago White Sox vs Texas Rangers
May 7, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 7, 1981 at Arlington Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the Chicago White Sox 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 4, Texas Rangers 9

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 4 0 0 0
Bernazard 2b 5 1 2 0
Fisk c 4 0 2 0
Luzinski dh 3 1 0 0
  Kuntz pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 3 1 3 1
  Squires 1b 0 0 0 0
Lemon cf 3 0 0 0
Nordhagen rf 2 0 1 0
  Baines ph,rf 2 1 2 2
Morrison 3b 4 0 0 0
Almon ss 4 0 1 1
Trout p 0 0 0 0
  Lamp p 0 0 0 0
  Hickey p 0 0 0 0
  Farmer p 0 0 0 0
  Hoyt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 11 4
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 5 1 2 3
Rivers cf 5 0 0 0
Oliver dh 4 1 2 0
Bell 3b 3 0 1 0
Stein 1b 5 1 1 2
Roberts lf 5 1 2 0
Grubb rf 4 3 2 0
Sundberg c 3 1 3 0
Mendoza ss 2 0 1 1
  Duran ph 0 0 0 0
  Wagner ss 1 1 1 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Babcock p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 9 15 6
Chicago 000 003 0014114
Texas 010 100 07x9150
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Trout   5.0 7 2 1 2 1
  Lamp   0.2 2 0 0 1 0
  Hickey   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Farmer  L (0-2) 0.2 3 4 3 1 0
  Hoyt   1.0 2 3 2 1 0
Totals
8.0
15
9
6
5
1
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack   5.1 8 3 3 1 2
  Babcock  W (1-0) 3.2 3 1 1 1 2
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
2
4

  E–Johnson (2), Baines (2), Morrison (2), Farmer (1).  DP–Chicago 2, Texas 1.  2B–Chicago Johnson (4,off Matlack); Baines (1,off Babcock), Texas Grubb (7,off Trout); Sundberg (5,off Lamp); Oliver (6,off Hickey); Wagner (1,off Farmer).  3B–Chicago Baines (2,off Babcock).  SH–Lemon (3,off Matlack); Johnson (1,off Babcock); Grubb (1,off Farmer).  IBB–Oliver (2,by Hoyt).  CS–LeFlore (1,2nd base by Matlack/Sundberg); Grubb (3,2nd base by Lamp/Fisk).  SB–Wills (5,2nd base off Hoyt/Fisk).  IBB–Hoyt (1,Oliver).  U-HP–Jerry Neudecker, 1B–Larry McCoy, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Dave Phillips.  T–2:56.  A–11,710.
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