Detroit Tigers vs Texas Rangers
June 9, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 9, 1981 at Arlington Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 5, Texas Rangers 0

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Jones rf 4 3 2 0
Trammell ss 1 0 0 0
Kemp dh 2 2 1 1
Parrish c 4 0 1 0
Brookens 3b 3 0 1 3
  Leach 1b 0 0 0 0
Wockenfuss 1b 3 0 0 0
  Kelleher pr,3b 0 0 0 0
Cowens cf 3 0 0 0
Gibson lf 4 0 0 0
Whitaker 2b 4 0 0 0
Lopez p 0 0 0 0
  Saucier p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 5 5 4
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 3 0 0 0
Rivers cf 4 0 1 0
Oliver dh 4 0 2 0
Bell 3b 2 0 0 0
Putnam 1b 2 0 0 0
  Ellis ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Sample lf 3 0 1 0
Roberts rf 3 0 0 0
Cox c 2 0 0 0
  Stein ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Mendoza ss 2 0 0 0
  Sundberg ph,c 1 0 1 0
Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 5 0
Detroit 000 102 020550
Texas 000 000 000052
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lopez  W (3-1) 6.0 4 0 0 3 6
  Saucier  SV (7) 3.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
3
6
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  L (3-5) 7.1 4 5 3 4 7
  Hough   1.2 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
5
5
3
5
9

  E–Roberts (2), Mendoza (8).  DP–Detroit 3, Texas 1.  2B–Texas Oliver (19,off Lopez).  SH–Trammell 3 (11,off Matlack 3).  SF–Brookens (4,off Matlack).  IBB–Bell (4,by Lopez).  SB–Kemp (4,2nd base off Hough/Cox); Brookens (3,2nd base off Hough/Cox).  CS–Wills (6,2nd base by Lopez/Parrish).  WP–Matlack (2).  IBB–Lopez (2,Bell).  U–Mark Johnson, Jim McKean, Greg Kosc.  T–2:30.  A–37,350.
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