Texas Rangers vs Toronto Blue Jays
August 9, 2003 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 2003 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 5

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Young 2b 4 0 0 1
Blalock 3b 3 0 0 0
Rodriguez ss 3 0 0 0
Palmeiro dh 2 1 0 0
Teixeira 1b 4 0 1 0
Spencer lf 2 0 0 0
Nix rf 4 1 1 0
Diaz c 3 0 1 0
  Jones ph 0 0 0 1
  Sadler pr 0 0 0 0
Nivar cf 4 1 2 1
Ellis p 0 0 0 0
  Ramirez p 0 0 0 0
  Fultz p 0 0 0 0
  Garcia p 0 0 0 0
  Shouse p 0 0 0 0
  Powell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 5 3
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Johnson rf,lf 5 1 1 1
Bordick ss 4 0 1 2
Wells cf 5 0 1 0
Delgado 1b 2 1 1 1
Myers c 4 0 1 0
  Wilson ph,c 1 0 0 0
Phelps dh 3 0 1 0
Hinske 3b 3 1 2 1
Catalanotto lf 2 1 1 0
  Kielty rf 0 1 0 0
Hudson 2b 3 0 2 0
  Berg ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Escobar p 0 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
  Service p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 11 5
Texas 000 010 011350
Toronto 001 001 03x5111
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Ellis   5.1 7 2 2 3 2
  Ramirez   1.2 0 0 0 1 1
  Fultz  L (1-3) 0.1 1 2 2 1 1
  Garcia   0.1 3 1 1 0 1
  Shouse   0.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Powell   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
11
5
5
5
5
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Escobar  W (8-6) 8.0 3 2 1 3 7
  Miller   0.0 0 1 1 1 0
  Service   0.1 2 0 0 1 0
  Lopez  SV (3) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
3
2
5
8

  E–Escobar (1).  DP–Toronto 2.  2B–Toronto Delgado (30,off Ellis); Hinske (32,off Fultz).  SF–Young (5,off Escobar); Bordick (1,off Ellis); Hinske (3,off Ellis).  HBP–Rodriguez (11,by Escobar); Blalock (1,by Escobar); Delgado (15,by Shouse).  IBB–Kielty (5,by Fultz).  SB–Palmeiro (2,2nd base off Escobar/Myers).  HBP–Shouse (2,Delgado); Escobar 2 (6,Rodriguez,Blalock).  IBB–Fultz (6,Kielty).  U-HP–Marvin Hudson, 1B–Greg Gibson, 2B–Jerry Layne, 3B–Dana DeMuth.  T–3:07.  A–24,644.
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