Texas Rangers vs Toronto Blue Jays
August 8, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 8, 1989 at Skydome. The Toronto Blue Jays 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 0, Toronto Blue Jays 7

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Espy cf 2 0 0 0
Palmeiro 1b 4 0 0 0
Sierra rf 3 0 0 0
  Leach ph 1 0 1 0
Baines dh 4 0 3 0
Franco 2b 4 0 0 0
Incaviglia lf 3 0 0 0
Buechele 3b 3 0 0 0
Sundberg c 2 0 0 0
  Daugherty ph 0 0 0 0
  Stanley c 0 0 0 0
Kunkel ss 3 0 1 0
Witt p 0 0 0 0
  Hall p 0 0 0 0
  Rogers p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 5 0
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Fernandez ss 4 0 1 0
Felix rf 4 0 1 0
Gruber 3b 3 1 1 1
Bell dh 4 0 1 1
McGriff 1b 2 2 1 1
Whitt c 4 0 0 0
Moseby cf 3 1 0 0
Wilson lf 4 1 1 0
Liriano 2b 3 2 3 4
Gozzo p 0 0 0 0
  Ward p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 7 9 7
Texas 000 000 000050
Toronto 012 300 10x790
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Witt  L (9-10) 4.2 5 6 6 3 5
  Hall   2.1 4 1 1 1 1
  Rogers   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
9
7
7
5
6
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Gozzo  W (1-0) 8.0 3 0 0 3 4
  Ward   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
3
5

  E–None.  DP–Texas 1, Toronto 2.  PB–Whitt (8).  2B–Texas Kunkel (16,off Gozzo), Toronto Wilson (3,off Witt); Gruber (19,off Hall).  HR–Toronto McGriff (30,2nd inning off Witt 0 on, 1 out); Liriano (3,4th inning off Witt 2 on, 2 out).  SF–Gruber (5,off Witt).  SB–Liriano 2 (13,2nd base off Witt/Sundberg,3rd base off Witt/Sundberg); Fernandez (11,2nd base off Witt/Sundberg).  U-HP–Don Denkinger, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Durwood Merrill, 3B–Steve Palermo.  T–2:36.  A–48,689.
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