Texas Rangers vs Toronto Blue Jays
August 9, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1996 at Skydome. The Texas Rangers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 5, Toronto Blue Jays 4

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Hamilton cf 3 1 0 0
Rodriguez c 5 2 3 3
Greer lf 5 1 3 1
Gonzalez rf 5 0 1 1
Clark 1b 4 0 1 0
Palmer 3b 5 0 0 0
Tettleton dh 3 1 2 0
  Buford pr,dh 0 0 0 0
McLemore 2b 4 0 2 0
Elster ss 3 0 0 0
Witt p 0 0 0 0
  Russell p 0 0 0 0
  Vosberg p 0 0 0 0
  Henneman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 5 12 5
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Nixon cf 5 0 1 0
Perez 2b 5 0 2 0
Delgado dh 4 1 2 0
  Samuel ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Carter lf 5 0 0 0
Sprague 3b 4 1 1 1
Olerud 1b 3 1 2 1
O'Brien c 4 1 3 2
  Cedeno pr 0 0 0 0
  Martinez c 0 0 0 0
Green rf 4 0 1 0
Gonzalez ss 3 0 0 0
Flener p 0 0 0 0
  Quantrill p 0 0 0 0
  Risley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 4 12 4
Texas 201 100 1005120
Toronto 020 002 0004121
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Witt  W (11-8) 6.0 9 4 4 2 8
  Russell   2.1 3 0 0 0 0
  Vosberg   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Henneman  SV (24) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
4
4
2
8
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Flener   6.0 7 4 4 3 4
  Quantrill  L (4-11) 2.0 4 1 1 2 0
  Risley   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
5
5
5
4

  E–T Perez (11).  DP–Texas 1, Toronto 3.  2B–Texas Greer (32,off Flener); Rodriguez (36,off Flener); McLemore (19,off Quantrill); Clark (16,off Risley), Toronto Olerud 2 (21,off Witt 2); Green (22,off Witt); Sprague (24,off Witt).  3B–Texas Greer (5,off Quantrill), Toronto T Perez (3,off Witt).  HR–Texas Rodriguez (17,1st inning off Flener 1 on, 0 out).  IBB–Hamilton (2,by Quantrill).  WP–Flener (1).  IBB–Quantrill (2,Hamilton).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Dale Ford, 2B–Chuck Meriwether, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–3:01.  A–33,535.
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