Texas Rangers vs Chicago White Sox
July 11, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 11, 1979 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox 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, Chicago White Sox 5

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Wills 2b 4 2 1 0
Sample lf 4 1 1 1
Bell 3b 4 0 1 0
Ellis dh 4 0 0 0
Oliver cf 4 0 1 2
Zisk rf 2 0 0 0
Putnam 1b 3 0 0 0
  Soderholm ph 0 0 0 0
  Jorgensen 1b 0 0 0 0
Sundberg c 4 0 0 0
Norman ss 3 0 0 0
  Blanks ph 1 0 0 0
Gleaton p 0 0 0 0
  Darwin p 0 0 0 0
  Rajsich p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 4 3
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Bannister 2b 4 1 2 1
  Kessinger ss 0 0 0 0
Moore lf 4 1 1 0
  Torres lf 0 0 0 0
Lemon cf 3 0 1 1
Johnson 1b 4 0 1 1
  Squires pr,1b 0 0 0 0
Nordhagen dh 1 0 0 0
  Orta ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Washington rf 4 1 1 0
Morrison 3b 3 0 1 1
Pryor ss,2b 4 1 2 0
Colbern c 2 1 1 0
  Garr ph 1 0 0 0
  May c 1 0 0 0
Trout p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 10 4
Texas 100 002 000340
Chicago 002 100 20x5103
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Gleaton   3.0 6 3 3 1 1
  Darwin  L (2-1) 3.2 4 2 2 1 3
  Rajsich   1.1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
3
4
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Trout  W (3-3) 9.0 4 3 2 4 5
Totals
9.0
4
3
2
4
5

  E–Bannister (17), Pryor (11), May (3).  DP–Texas 1.  2B–Texas Oliver (11,off Trout).  IBB–Zisk (4,by Trout).  HBP–Lemon (10,by Gleaton).  SB–Wills (25,3rd base off Trout/Colbern); Washington (11,2nd base off Gleaton/Sundberg); Morrison (1,2nd base off Darwin/Sundberg); Squires (7,2nd base off Rajsich/Sundberg).  WP–Gleaton (1).  HBP–Gleaton (1,Lemon).  IBB–Trout (4,Zisk).  U-HP–Bill Deegan, 1B–Greg Kosc, 2B–Jerry Neudecker, 3B–George Maloney.  T–2:25.  A–15,520.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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