Texas Rangers vs Oakland Athletics
July 4, 1982 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 4, 1982 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Texas Rangers defeated the Oakland Athletics 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 11, Oakland Athletics 4

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Sample cf,lf 3 1 1 0
Sundberg c 5 1 1 1
Bell 3b 4 0 2 0
Hostetler 1b 4 2 1 0
Grubb lf,rf 4 1 1 1
Johnson dh 2 4 1 1
  Roberts ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Parrish rf 3 2 2 7
  Wright cf 1 0 0 0
Wagner ss 4 0 0 0
Flynn 2b 4 0 1 0
Medich p 0 0 0 0
  Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 11 10 10
Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Henderson lf 5 3 3 1
Murphy cf 5 0 3 2
Meyer 1b 4 1 0 0
Gross 3b 3 0 1 0
Goodwin dh 4 0 1 1
Armas rf 3 0 1 0
Newman c 4 0 0 0
McKay 2b 4 0 1 0
Stanley ss 3 0 0 0
  Burroughs ph 1 0 0 0
Keough p 0 0 0 0
  Arroyo p 0 0 0 0
  McLaughlin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 10 4
Texas 113 500 10011100
Oakland 210 010 0004101
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Medich  W (6-7) 6.0 8 4 4 2 0
  Schmidt  SV (2) 3.0 2 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
2
3
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Keough  L (7-11) 3.1 6 6 6 5 2
  Arroyo   3.1 2 5 5 3 1
  McLaughlin   2.1 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
11
11
8
4

  E–McKay (6).  DP–Texas 1, Oakland 1.  2B–Oakland Armas (11,off Medich).  3B–Oakland Goodwin (1,off Medich); Henderson (3,off Medich).  HR–Texas L Johnson (5,2nd inning off Keough 0 on, 0 out); Parrish 2 (4,3rd inning off Keough 2 on, 1 out,4th inning off Arroyo 3 on, 2 out); Sundberg (5,4th inning off Keough 0 on, 1 out), Oakland Henderson (7,1st inning off Medich 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Wagner (7,off Keough).  HBP–L Johnson (1,by Arroyo).  SB–Sample (6,2nd base off Keough/Newman); Henderson (77,2nd base off Medich/Sundberg).  WP–Keough (6), Arroyo 3 (4).  HBP–Arroyo (1,L Johnson).  U-HP–Rocky Roe, 1B–Larry Barnett, 2B–Mike Reilly, 3B–Dallas Parks.  T–3:01.  A–42,052.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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