Texas Rangers vs Chicago White Sox
May 16, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 16, 1981 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Texas Rangers 1, Chicago White Sox 9

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 3 0 2 0
  Stein 2b 1 0 1 0
Rivers cf 4 1 2 0
Oliver dh 4 0 1 1
Bell 3b 3 0 1 0
Roberts lf 4 0 0 0
Putnam 1b 4 0 2 0
Lisi rf 4 0 0 0
Wagner ss 3 0 0 0
Cox c 3 0 0 0
Darwin p 0 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
  Babcock p 0 0 0 0
  Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 9 1
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore lf 4 0 1 1
  Kuntz lf 0 0 0 0
Squires 1b 3 1 0 0
Fisk c 3 0 0 0
  Hill c 0 0 0 0
Luzinski dh 4 1 1 1
Baines rf 4 3 4 1
Lemon cf 3 1 1 1
Bernazard 2b 2 1 1 1
  Pryor 2b 1 0 0 0
Morrison 3b 4 1 1 2
Almon ss 4 1 1 2
Burns p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 9 10 9
Texas 000 000 010191
Chicago 051 020 10x9101
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Darwin  L (4-3) 3.0 7 6 6 1 2
  Hough   3.0 2 2 1 0 3
  Babcock   1.0 1 1 1 1 0
  Schmidt   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
9
8
2
5
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burns  W (3-2) 9.0 9 1 0 1 4
Totals
9.0
9
1
0
1
4

  E–Wagner (2), Almon (3).  DP–Texas 1, Chicago 2.  PB–Cox 2 (2).  2B–Chicago Lemon (6,off Darwin); Morrison (3,off Darwin); LeFlore (2,off Darwin); Bernazard (5,off Darwin).  HR–Chicago Luzinski (4,5th inning off Hough 0 on, 1 out).  SF–Lemon (1,off Hough).  HBP–Fisk (7,by Babcock).  IBB–Bernazard (2,by Darwin).  CS–Wills (4,2nd base by Burns/Fisk).  SB–Almon (4,2nd base off Darwin/Cox); Baines (2,2nd base off Darwin/Cox).  HBP–Babcock (1,Fisk).  IBB–Darwin (2,Bernazard).  U-HP–Ted Hendry, 1B–Jim Evans, 2B–Al Clark, 3B–Steve Palermo.  T–2:43.  A–20,206.
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