Boston Red Sox vs Texas Rangers
August 15, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 15, 1981 at Arlington Stadium. The Boston Red 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)
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Boston Red Sox 5, Texas Rangers 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 3 0 0 0
Stapleton ss 3 0 1 0
  Valdez ss 1 0 1 0
  Hancock ph 1 0 0 0
  Hoffman ss 0 0 0 0
Evans rf 2 1 0 0
Rice lf 4 2 0 0
Yastrzemski 1b 4 1 2 1
Lansford 3b 5 1 1 2
Perez dh 3 0 0 0
  Nichols pr,dh 0 0 0 0
  Rudi ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Gedman c 3 0 1 2
Miller cf 3 0 1 0
Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
  Clear p 0 0 0 0
  Tudor p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 7 5
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Rivers cf 5 0 1 0
Wills 2b 4 0 1 0
Oliver dh 5 0 1 0
Bell 3b 5 0 1 0
Grubb rf 3 0 1 0
  Roberts ph,rf 0 0 0 0
Putnam 1b 3 2 2 0
  Stein ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Sample lf 4 1 1 2
Sundberg c 3 0 0 0
Mendoza ss 2 0 0 0
  Poquette ph 1 0 1 1
  Wagner ss 1 0 0 0
Darwin p 0 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
  Kern p 0 0 0 0
  Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 9 3
Boston 000 000 300 2570
Texas 000 200 100 0391
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eckersley   6.0 5 2 2 0 2
  Clear   1.0 2 1 1 0 1
  Tudor   0.2 1 0 0 2 0
  Stanley  W (5-4) 2.1 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
10.0
9
3
3
3
3
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Darwin   6.0 4 3 3 3 3
  Hough   1.0 2 0 0 1 0
  Kern  L (1-1) 2.0 1 2 1 4 1
  Schmidt   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
7
5
4
8
5

  E–Wills (4).  DP–Boston 1, Texas 1.  2B–Boston Lansford (15,off Darwin); Gedman (7,off Hough), Texas Bell (8,off Tudor).  HR–Texas Sample (1,4th inning off Eckersley 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Evans (2,off Kern); Gedman (1,off Kern).  IBB–Yastrzemski (1,by Kern); Remy (1,by Kern); Roberts (2,by Tudor).  CS–Lansford (6,2nd base by Schmidt/Sundberg); Wills (7,2nd base by Tudor/Gedman).  SB–Putnam 2 (4,2nd base off Eckersley/Gedman,2nd base off Clear/Gedman).  IBB–Tudor (1,Roberts); Kern 2 (2,Yastrzemski,Remy).  U-HP–Jim McKean, 1B–Rich Garcia, 2B–Greg Kosc, 3B–Rocky Roe.  T–2:41.  A–29,353.
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