Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics
July 8, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 8, 1989 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 5, Oakland Athletics 4

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Espy cf 5 0 1 0
Sosa lf 5 0 0 0
Palmeiro 1b 4 1 2 0
Sierra rf 5 0 1 0
Franco 2b 5 1 2 1
Daugherty dh 5 1 2 0
Buechele 3b,ss 5 2 3 1
Kunkel ss 3 0 1 0
  Bosley ph 1 0 1 2
  Sundberg c 0 0 0 0
Kreuter c 3 0 1 0
  Leach ph 0 0 0 0
  Stanley ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Brown p 0 0 0 0
  Hall p 0 0 0 0
  Russell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 5 14 4
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson R. lf 5 1 3 3
Lansford 3b 4 1 1 0
Parker dh 3 0 1 0
McGwire 1b 5 0 0 0
Steinbach c 4 0 2 1
Henderson D. cf 4 0 0 0
Phillips 2b,ss 3 1 0 0
Javier rf 3 0 0 0
  Hubbard 2b 0 0 0 0
Gallego ss 2 0 0 0
  Hassey ph 0 0 0 0
  Blankenship ph,2b,rf 1 1 0 0
Stewart p 0 0 0 0
  Burns p 0 0 0 0
  Young p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 7 4
Texas 000 010 102 15141
Oakland 000 010 030 0470
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Brown   7.0 4 1 1 3 2
  Hall   0.0 0 1 1 1 0
  Russell  W (4-2) 3.0 3 2 1 2 2
Totals
10.0
7
4
3
6
4
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Stewart   8.0 8 2 2 1 5
  Burns   0.1 3 2 2 0 0
  Young  L (0-3) 1.0 2 1 1 0 2
  Nelson   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.0
14
5
5
1
7

  E–Kreuter (1).  DP–Texas 2, Oakland 2.  2B–Texas Buechele (14,off Burns), Oakland R Henderson (17,off Brown).  HR–Texas Buechele (7,5th inning off Stewart 0 on, 0 out), Oakland R Henderson (6,8th inning off Russell 1 on, 0 out).  IBB–Parker (6,by Russell).  SB–Espy (27,2nd base off Stewart/Steinbach); Lansford (13,2nd base off Russell/Kreuter); Hubbard (2,2nd base off Russell/Sundberg).  IBB–Russell (2,Parker).  U-HP–Jim Evans, 1B–Dale Scott, 2B–Jim Joyce, 3B–Tim Welke.  T–3:25.  A–38,220.
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