Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics
September 15, 1983 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 15, 1983 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Texas Rangers defeated the Oakland Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 6, Oakland Athletics 5

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Sample lf 5 1 2 1
Hostetler dh 3 0 1 1
  Rivers pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Wright cf 5 1 2 3
Parrish rf 3 0 0 0
Bell 3b 3 0 0 0
Stein 1b 4 1 1 0
Dent ss 4 1 1 1
Johnson c 3 0 2 0
  Capra pr 0 1 0 0
  Sundberg c 1 0 0 0
Wilkerson 2b 3 1 0 0
Smithson p 0 0 0 0
  Mason p 0 0 0 0
  Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
  Matlack p 0 0 0 0
  Tobik p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 9 6
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 2 1 0 0
Heath c,rf 4 1 0 0
Murphy dh 4 1 0 0
Lopes 2b 4 1 3 2
Davis cf 4 1 1 1
Hill ss 3 0 0 1
Hancock rf 3 0 1 1
  Burroughs ph 1 0 0 0
  Phillips 3b 0 0 0 0
Meyer 1b 3 0 1 0
  Almon ph,1b 0 0 0 0
Gross 3b 1 0 1 0
  Kearney ph,c 1 0 0 0
Conroy p 0 0 0 0
  Atherton p 0 0 0 0
  Beard p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 7 5
Texas 110 000 400690
Oakland 000 220 100570
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Smithson   4.0 2 2 2 3 0
  Mason   0.2 1 2 2 1 0
  Schmidt  W (3-3) 1.1 2 0 0 1 0
  Matlack   2.0 2 1 1 1 2
  Tobik  SV (8) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
6
3
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Conroy  L (6-9) 6.1 6 5 5 3 1
  Atherton   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Beard   2.1 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
9
6
6
4
3

  E–None.  DP–Texas 3.  2B–Texas G Wright (27,off Atherton), Oakland Meyer (7,off Schmidt).  3B–Texas Johnson (1,off Conroy), Oakland Lopes (4,off Matlack).  HR–Texas G Wright (18,1st inning off Conroy 0 on, 2 out); Dent (1,2nd inning off Conroy 0 on, 2 out).  SF–Hostetler (2,off Atherton); Hill (2,off Smithson).  SH–Heath (1,off Mason).  HBP–Gross (3,by Schmidt).  HBP–Schmidt (1,Gross).  U-HP–Marty Springstead, 1B–Durwood Merrill, 2B–Jim McKean, 3B–Russ Goetz.  T–2:28.  A–6,947.
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