Texas Rangers vs Kansas City Royals
May 11, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 11, 1981 at Royals Stadium. The Texas Rangers defeated the Kansas City Royals 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 9, Kansas City Royals 1

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 5 1 4 3
Rivers cf 5 1 2 1
Oliver dh 5 1 2 1
Bell 3b 5 0 1 2
Stein 1b 2 1 1 0
  Putnam 1b 2 0 0 0
Roberts lf 4 1 1 0
Sundberg c 5 0 0 0
Lisi rf 3 3 2 1
Mendoza ss 3 1 2 1
Honeycutt p 0 0 0 0
  Babcock p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 9 15 9
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson lf 5 0 1 0
Washington ss 4 0 2 0
Brett G. 3b 4 0 0 0
McRae dh 3 0 0 0
Otis cf 4 0 1 0
Wathan rf 4 0 1 0
Aikens 1b 4 0 0 0
White 2b 3 1 1 1
  Quirk ph 1 0 1 0
Grote c 3 0 2 0
  Phelps ph 1 0 0 0
Gura p 0 0 0 0
  Martin p 0 0 0 0
  Brett K. p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 1 9 1
Texas 003 012 0309152
Kansas City 000 010 000190
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Honeycutt  W (3-0) 7.0 8 1 1 0 0
  Babcock   2.0 1 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
1
3
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Gura  L (3-3) 5.2 10 6 6 1 1
  Martin   1.2 2 3 3 2 0
  Brett   1.2 3 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
15
9
9
3
1

  E–Mendoza (5), Honeycutt (1).  DP–Texas 2, Kansas City 2.  2B–Texas Bell (4,off Gura); Stein (3,off Gura); Wills (7,off K Brett), Kansas City Quirk (3,off Babcock).  HR–Kansas City White (1,5th inning off Honeycutt 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Mendoza (7,off Gura).  CS–Washington (5,2nd base by Honeycutt/Sundberg).  U-HP–Bill Haller, 1B–Russ Goetz, 2B–George Maloney, 3B–Ken Kaiser.  T–2:26.  A–28,876.
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