Texas Rangers vs Toronto Blue Jays
May 2, 1983 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 2, 1983 at Exhibition Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Texas Rangers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 5, Toronto Blue Jays 6

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Sample lf 4 0 0 0
Bell 3b 3 1 1 1
Parrish rf 3 1 1 2
Hostetler dh 4 1 1 1
O'Brien 1b 4 0 0 0
Sundberg c 4 1 1 0
Wright cf 4 0 1 0
Dent ss 4 0 1 1
Tolleson 2b 4 1 2 0
Darwin p 0 0 0 0
  Tanana p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 8 5
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Collins lf 3 1 1 0
  Bonnell lf 0 0 0 0
Garcia 2b 4 0 0 0
Upshaw 1b 4 2 2 2
Whitt c 4 1 1 1
Moseby cf 4 1 1 2
Orta dh 2 0 0 0
  Johnson ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Mulliniks 3b 2 0 0 0
  Iorg ph,3b 2 0 0 0
Powell rf 1 1 1 0
  Barfield ph,rf 2 0 0 0
Griffin ss 3 0 2 1
Clancy p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Moffitt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 8 6
Texas 211 010 000580
Toronto 213 000 00x681
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Darwin  L (1-3) 3.0 7 6 6 0 1
  Tanana   4.0 1 0 0 3 8
  Jones   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
6
6
3
9
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Clancy  W (2-1) 5.0 6 5 4 1 3
  Jackson   1.0 2 0 0 1 0
  Moffitt  SV (1) 3.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
8
5
4
2
5

  E–Upshaw (6).  2B–Texas Tolleson (4,off Clancy).  3B–Toronto Griffin (2,off Darwin); Upshaw (2,off Darwin).  HR–Texas Bell (2,1st inning off Clancy 0 on, 1 out); Hostetler (2,1st inning off Clancy 0 on, 2 out); Parrish (4,3rd inning off Clancy 0 on, 1 out), Toronto Upshaw (5,1st inning off Darwin 1 on, 1 out); Moseby (3,3rd inning off Darwin 1 on, 1 out).  SF–Parrish (2,off Clancy).  SB–Tolleson 2 (4,3rd base off Clancy/Whitt,2nd base off Jackson/Whitt).  CS–Sundberg (1,2nd base by Clancy/Whitt).  U-HP–Greg Kosc, 1B–Ted Hendry, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–2:30.  A–10,525.
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