Texas Rangers vs Seattle Mariners
September 30, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 30, 1981 at Kingdome. The Texas Rangers defeated the Seattle Mariners 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 3, Seattle Mariners 1

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Tolleson 3b 5 0 0 0
Poquette cf 3 0 0 0
Sundberg c 4 0 0 0
Ellis dh 2 1 0 0
Sample lf 3 1 2 0
Roberts rf 2 1 0 0
Johnson 1b 4 0 2 1
Wagner 2b 4 0 1 1
Norman ss 3 0 1 1
Hough p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 6 3
Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Simpson cf 4 0 0 0
Meyer 3b 4 0 0 0
Paciorek rf 3 0 1 0
Bochte lf 4 0 0 0
Burroughs dh 3 0 0 0
Maler 1b 4 0 1 0
Serna 2b 3 1 0 0
  Zisk ph 1 0 0 0
Anderson ss 1 0 1 1
Bulling c 3 0 0 0
Bannister p 0 0 0 0
  Drago p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 3 1
Texas 000 300 000360
Seattle 000 000 100132
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Hough  W (4-1) 9.0 3 1 1 4 8
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
4
8
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Bannister  L (8-9) 3.0 3 3 3 4 3
  Drago   6.0 3 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
5
5

  E–Paciorek (7), Bulling (5).  DP–Seattle 2.  2B–Seattle Anderson (7,off Hough).  SF–Norman (1,off Drago).  HBP–Roberts (1,by Bannister).  CS–Poquette (1,2nd base by Bannister/Bulling).  SB–Maler (1,2nd base off Hough/Sundberg); Anderson (3,2nd base off Hough/Sundberg).  HBP–Bannister (3,Roberts).  U-HP–Vic Voltaggio, 1B–John Shulock, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–Rocky Roe.  T–2:12.  A–5,158.
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