Texas Rangers vs Chicago White Sox
May 15, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 15, 1981 at Comiskey Park I. 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)
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Texas Rangers 2, Chicago White Sox 1

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 3 1 3 0
Rivers cf 5 0 1 0
Oliver dh 3 0 0 1
Bell 3b 4 0 1 0
Grubb rf 4 1 1 1
Putnam 1b 4 0 0 0
Roberts lf 4 0 1 0
Sundberg c 2 0 1 0
Mendoza ss 4 0 1 0
Jenkins p 0 0 0 0
  Comer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 9 2
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 3 0 0 0
Bernazard 2b 3 0 1 0
Fisk c 4 1 1 1
Luzinski dh 3 0 0 0
  Molinaro ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Baines rf 4 0 0 0
Morrison 3b 4 0 0 0
Squires 1b 2 0 1 0
Kuntz cf 2 0 0 0
Almon ss 3 0 0 0
Dotson p 0 0 0 0
  Hickey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 3 1
Texas 000 100 100290
Chicago 100 000 000130
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Jenkins  W (2-2) 7.1 3 1 1 4 6
  Comer  SV (4) 1.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
4
6
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Dotson  L (4-2) 8.1 9 2 2 4 3
  Hickey   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
4
3

  E–None.  DP–Texas 1, Chicago 2.  2B–Texas Roberts (6,off Dotson); Wills (8,off Dotson).  HR–Texas Grubb (3,4th inning off Dotson 0 on, 1 out), Chicago Fisk (5,1st inning off Jenkins 0 on, 2 out).  SF–Oliver (1,off Dotson).  SB–Rivers (5,2nd base off Dotson/Fisk); Squires (2,2nd base off Jenkins/Sundberg).  CS–Rivers (2,2nd base by Dotson/Fisk).  WP–Jenkins (1).  BK–Dotson (2).  U-HP–Steve Palermo, 1B–Ted Hendry, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Al Clark.  T–2:40.  A–29,829.
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