Texas Rangers vs Toronto Blue Jays
August 8, 2003 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 8, 2003 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 3

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Young 2b 5 0 1 0
Blalock 3b 4 1 2 1
Rodriguez ss 4 0 1 0
Palmeiro dh 3 1 2 0
Teixeira 1b 4 1 1 2
Spencer lf 3 1 1 0
Nix rf 4 1 1 2
Nivar cf 3 0 0 0
Diaz c 4 0 2 0
Dickey p 0 0 0 0
  Mahay p 0 0 0 0
  Cordero p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 11 5
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Catalanotto lf 3 1 1 0
  Berg ph,2b 2 0 0 0
Bordick ss 3 1 1 1
Wells cf 4 0 3 0
Delgado 1b 4 1 1 1
Myers c 4 0 0 0
Phelps dh 4 0 1 1
Hinske 3b 3 0 1 0
Kielty rf 4 0 0 0
Hudson 2b 2 0 0 0
  Johnson ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Thurman p 0 0 0 0
  Sturtze p 0 0 0 0
  Kershner p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 8 3
Texas 500 000 0005110
Toronto 201 000 000380
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Dickey  W (6-5) 6.0 6 3 3 1 6
  Mahay   1.2 1 0 0 0 1
  Cordero  SV (7) 1.1 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
1
8
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Thurman  L (1-1) 0.2 6 5 5 1 0
  Sturtze   4.2 5 0 0 2 0
  Kershner   3.2 0 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
11
5
5
4
3

  E–None.  DP–Toronto 5.  PB–Diaz (4).  2B–Texas Spencer (14,off Thurman), Toronto Phelps (13,off Dickey); Wells (34,off Mahay).  HR–Texas Blalock (20,1st inning off Thurman 0 on, 1 out); Teixeira (18,1st inning off Thurman 1 on, 2 out); Nix (4,1st inning off Thurman 1 on, 2 out), Toronto Delgado (32,3rd inning off Dickey 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Bordick (1,by Dickey).  HBP–Dickey (4,Bordick).  U-HP–Dana DeMuth, 1B–Marvin Hudson, 2B–Greg Gibson, 3B–Jerry Layne.  T–2:48.  A–24,392.
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