Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics
September 23, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 23, 1996 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Oakland Athletics 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Texas Rangers 3, Oakland Athletics 5

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Hamilton cf 4 1 2 1
Rodriguez c 5 1 1 0
Greer lf 5 0 2 0
Gonzalez rf 5 0 2 1
Clark 1b 4 0 1 1
Palmer 3b 4 0 0 0
Tettleton dh 3 0 1 0
  Frazier pr,dh 0 0 0 0
McLemore 2b 3 1 2 0
Elster ss 3 0 1 0
  Stevens ph 1 0 0 0
  Gil ss 0 0 0 0
Witt p 0 0 0 0
  Whiteside p 0 0 0 0
  Cook p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 12 3
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Batista 2b 3 1 2 0
Stairs lf 2 1 1 1
  Lesher ph,lf 1 0 0 0
  Moore cf 0 0 0 0
Brosius 3b 4 0 1 0
McGwire 1b 3 0 0 1
Berroa dh 4 1 2 0
Steinbach c 4 0 0 0
Herrera rf 4 1 3 0
Young cf,lf 4 1 2 2
Bordick ss 3 0 0 0
Wasdin p 0 0 0 0
  Groom p 0 0 0 0
  Acre p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 11 4
Texas 110 000 1003120
Oakland 221 000 00x5112
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Witt  L (15-12) 1.1 5 4 4 2 1
  Whiteside   4.1 5 1 1 0 2
  Cook   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Patterson   2.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
11
5
5
2
5
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Wasdin  W (8-7) 5.0 8 2 1 0 2
  Groom   1.2 1 1 1 2 0
  Acre   0.2 3 0 0 0 0
  Taylor  SV (16) 1.2 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
12
3
2
2
4

  E–Brosius (10), McGwire (10).  DP–Texas 1, Oakland 1.  2B–Texas Clark (24,off Wasdin); Elster (32,off Wasdin); Gonzalez (33,off Acre), Oakland Young (19,off Witt).  SF–Hamilton (6,off Wasdin); Stairs (1,off Whiteside).  CS–Batista (2,2nd base by Cook/Rodriguez).  U-HP–Durwood Merrill, 1B–Dale Scott, 2B–Mike Everitt, 3B–Rocky Roe.  T–3:09.  A–10,164.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook