Baltimore Orioles vs Texas Rangers
May 9, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 1981 at Arlington Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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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Baltimore Orioles 7, Texas Rangers 3

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bumbry cf 4 1 2 0
Krenchicki ss 5 1 2 1
  Belanger ss 0 0 0 0
Dwyer lf 5 0 0 0
Singleton dh 5 1 3 1
  Lowenstein pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Graham c 5 2 3 2
Murray 1b 4 0 0 0
Roenicke rf 4 1 1 2
DeCinces 3b 3 1 1 0
Sakata 2b 4 0 2 1
Martinez D. p 0 0 0 0
  Martinez T. p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 7 14 7
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 4 0 0 0
Rivers cf 4 1 1 0
Oliver dh 4 1 3 1
Bell 3b 4 0 1 2
Grubb rf 4 0 1 0
Putnam 1b 4 0 0 0
Duran lf 3 0 0 0
Sundberg c 2 0 0 0
Mendoza ss 2 0 0 0
  Stein ph 1 1 1 0
Jenkins p 0 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 3
Baltimore 010 202 0027141
Texas 000 000 003370
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Martinez D.  W (3-1) 8.1 7 3 3 1 2
  Martinez T.   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
1
3
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Jenkins  L (1-2) 3.0 7 3 3 1 1
  Hough   6.0 7 4 4 2 4
Totals
9.0
14
7
7
3
5

  E–Roenicke (1).  DP–Baltimore 2, Texas 1.  2B–Baltimore Bumbry (5,off Jenkins); Graham (1,off Jenkins); DeCinces (5,off Hough), Texas Stein (1,off D Martinez); Oliver (7,off D Martinez).  HR–Baltimore Graham (2,2nd inning off Jenkins 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Roenicke (1,by Hough).  IBB–Murray (2,by Jenkins).  SB–Sakata (2,2nd base off Hough/Sundberg); Wills (6,2nd base off D Martinez/Graham).  CS–DeCinces (1,2nd base by Hough/Sundberg).  HBP–Hough (1,Roenicke).  IBB–Jenkins (1,Murray).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Durwood Merrill, 2B–Dave Phillips, 3B–Jerry Neudecker.  T–2:19.
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