Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers
September 3, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 3, 1989 at Arlington Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Texas Rangers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Kansas City Royals 13, Texas Rangers 2

Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Seitzer 3b 2 2 0 1
  Pecota pr,ss 1 1 1 0
Stillwell ss 3 2 1 2
  Schulz lf 1 0 0 0
Brett 1b 2 1 1 2
  Palacios pr,1b,3b 3 1 1 1
Jackson dh 4 1 1 3
  Buckner ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Eisenreich cf 5 0 2 3
  Thurman cf 1 0 0 0
Macfarlane c 4 1 1 0
  Boone pr,c 0 0 0 0
Winters rf 5 1 2 0
Tabler lf,1b 4 2 2 1
White 2b 0 1 0 0
  Wellman 2b 4 0 1 0
Gubicza p 0 0 0 0
  McWilliams p 0 0 0 0
  Aquino p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 13 13 13
Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Daugherty lf 4 1 1 1
Palmeiro 1b 3 0 0 0
  Coolbaugh 3b 1 0 0 0
Baines dh 3 0 1 0
  Stanley ph,dh 0 0 0 0
Sierra rf 2 0 1 1
  Gonzalez pr,cf 1 0 0 0
Franco 2b 3 0 0 0
  Manrique 2b 1 0 1 0
Incaviglia cf,1b 4 0 3 0
Kunkel ss,rf 2 1 0 0
  Bosley ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Buechele 3b 1 0 0 0
  Palmer ss 2 0 1 0
Kreuter c 4 0 0 0
Brown p 0 0 0 0
  Hall p 0 0 0 0
  Akerfelds p 0 0 0 0
  McMurtry p 0 0 0 0
  Guante p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 8 2
Kansas City 250 010 50013130
Texas 001 000 100281
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Gubicza  W (14-10) 5.0 5 1 0 0 7
  McWilliams   2.0 1 1 1 1 2
  Aquino   2.0 2 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
8
2
1
2
9
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Brown  L (11-9) 1.0 4 6 6 1 1
  Hall   3.0 1 1 1 2 1
  Akerfelds   2.0 3 1 1 1 4
  McMurtry   2.0 4 5 5 1 1
  Guante   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
13
13
13
5
7

  E–Palmer (1).  DP–Kansas City 2, Texas 1.  PB–Macfarlane (8).  2B–Kansas City Brett (20,off Brown); Winters (5,off Akerfelds), Texas Incaviglia (20,off Gubicza); Palmer (1,off McWilliams).  HR–Kansas City Jackson (29,7th inning off McMurtry 2 on, 2 out).  HBP–Seitzer (3,by Brown); White (2,by Brown); Stillwell (3,by Hall); Brett (3,by Hall); Macfarlane (2,by McMurtry); Buechele (5,by Gubicza); Kunkel (2,by McWilliams).  IBB–Jackson (4,by Hall).  SF–Daugherty (3,off McWilliams).  HBP–Gubicza (5,Buechele); McWilliams (1,Kunkel); Brown 2 (4,Seitzer,White); Hall 2 (3,Stillwell,Brett); McMurtry (1,Macfarlane).  IBB–Hall (1,Jackson).  U-HP–Ted Hendry, 1B–Steve Palermo, 2B–Don Denkinger, 3B–Tim Tschida.  T–3:07.  A–18,144.
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