Texas Rangers vs Toronto Blue Jays
September 11, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 11, 1996 at Skydome. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Texas Rangers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 3, Toronto Blue Jays 8

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Hamilton cf 4 0 1 0
Rodriguez c 4 1 1 1
Clark 1b 4 1 1 1
Gonzalez rf 4 0 2 0
Tettleton dh 4 0 0 0
Palmer 3b 4 1 3 0
Stevens lf 3 0 0 1
McLemore 2b 4 0 1 0
Elster ss 2 0 0 0
Burkett p 0 0 0 0
  Vosberg p 0 0 0 0
  Whiteside p 0 0 0 0
  Cook p 0 0 0 0
  Heredia p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 9 3
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Nixon cf 4 1 3 2
Green rf 3 0 1 0
  Brumfield ph,rf 2 1 1 0
Carter lf 5 1 2 1
Olerud 1b 3 0 0 0
  Samuel ph,1b 1 2 1 1
Sprague 3b 5 1 2 0
Delgado dh 4 1 1 1
Gonzalez ss 4 1 1 2
Martinez c 2 0 0 0
  O'Brien ph,c 0 0 0 0
Perez 2b 4 0 1 0
Andujar p 0 0 0 0
  Spoljaric p 0 0 0 0
  Timlin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 8 13 7
Texas 100 110 000392
Toronto 010 000 61x8130
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Burkett   6.0 8 1 1 2 6
  Vosberg  L (1-1) 0.0 3 4 3 1 0
  Whiteside   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Cook   0.2 1 2 0 2 0
  Heredia   1.0 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
13
8
5
5
8
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Andujar  W (1-2) 7.0 9 3 3 1 2
  Spoljaric   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Timlin   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
1
2

  E–Palmer 2 (15).  DP–Texas 1, Toronto 2.  2B–Toronto Nixon (13,off Burkett); Sprague (31,off Burkett); Carter (33,off Vosberg).  3B–Texas Palmer (2,off Andujar).  HR–Texas Rodriguez (19,1st inning off Andujar 0 on, 1 out); Clark (12,5th inning off Andujar 0 on, 2 out), Toronto Samuel (8,8th inning off Heredia 0 on, 1 out).  SF–Stevens (1,off Andujar).  WP–Andujar (1).  U-HP–Mark Johnson, 1B–Larry Young, 2B–Drew Coble, 3B–Ted Barrett.  T–2:45.  A–27,262.
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