Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics
September 17, 1984 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 17, 1984 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics 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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Texas Rangers 3, Oakland Athletics 5

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Sample dh 3 1 0 0
Ward lf 4 1 2 1
Bell 3b 4 1 1 0
Parrish rf 4 0 1 0
Wright cf 4 0 1 1
Hostetler 1b 3 0 1 0
  Jones ph 0 0 0 0
  Tolleson pr 0 0 0 0
Bannister 2b 2 0 0 0
  Foley ph 0 0 0 1
  Kunkel pr 0 0 0 0
Yost c 3 0 0 0
  Rivers ph 1 0 0 0
Wilkerson ss 3 0 1 0
  Dunbar ph 1 0 0 0
Mason p 0 0 0 0
  Noles p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 3
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 4 0 1 0
Lansford 3b 4 0 1 0
Morgan 2b 1 1 0 0
  Phillips 2b 1 0 0 0
Kingman dh 4 1 1 2
Murphy cf 3 2 1 0
Heath rf 4 0 1 1
  Davis pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Almon 1b 3 1 2 1
Kiefer ss 3 0 0 0
Tettleton c 2 0 1 1
Krueger p 0 0 0 0
  Caudill p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 5 8 5
Texas 000 001 002370
Oakland 000 013 01x580
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Mason  L (9-13) 6.0 6 4 4 2 4
  Noles   2.0 2 1 1 2 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
4
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Krueger  W (9-10) 8.0 6 3 3 2 1
  Caudill  SV (32) 1.0 1 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
4
2

  E–None.  DP–Texas 2, Oakland 2.  2B–Texas Ward (21,off Krueger), Oakland Almon (9,off Mason); Tettleton (1,off Mason); Murphy (17,off Mason); Lansford (28,off Noles).  3B–Oakland Heath (5,off Noles).  HR–Oakland Kingman (35,6th inning off Mason 1 on, 0 out).  SF–Almon (4,off Mason).  SB–Parrish (2,2nd base off Krueger/Tettleton); Henderson (57,2nd base off Mason/Yost).  T–2:22.  A–7,507.
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