Rangers @ Red Sox
April 20, 1980

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Top 11	R	H	E
Rangers	5	8	0
Red Sox	5	13	0

Top 11	R	H	E
Rangers	5	8	0
Red Sox	5	13	0

Pat Putnam Season Stats

	Game	Season
Average	.000	.240
OBP	.250	.367
At Bats	3	25
Hits	0	6
• Singles	0	4
• Doubles	0	2
• Triples	0	0
• Home Runs	0	0
Walks	1	5
RBI’s	0	0

Tom Burgmeier Season Stats

Wins	Losses	Saves
0	0	2

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Fenway Park - April 20, 1980

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Strikeout

Tom Burgmeier

Carlton Fisk

Jim Dwyer

Jerry Remy

Jack Brohamer

Rick Burleson

Jim Rice

Fred Lynn

Dwight Evans

Pat Putnam

Count: - , 2 Outs

Count: - , 0 Outs

Putnam strikes out. Fisk drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Putnam out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:

Top 11 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Burgmeier fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.

Top 11 Jim Dwyer now playing first base. Billy Sample pinch hits for Rusty Staub. Sample hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.

Bottom 10 Evans hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Sundberg settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 10 Brohamer hits a fly ball into center field. Rivers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 10 Sundberg fires to second and picks off Dwyer for the out.

Bottom 10 Jim Dwyer pinch runs for Tony Perez. Fisk takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 10 Perez hits a ball on the ground into right field, out of the reach of Oliver. Perez reaches second base with a double.

Top 10 Bell hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 10 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 10 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 9 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 9 Rice is called out on strikes.

Bottom 9 Lynn hits a popup towards third. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 9 Rivers hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brohamer fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 9 Frias hits a ball on the ground towards first. Perez scoops it up and throws to first, with Burgmeier covering, for the out. Sundberg moves to third.

Top 9 Sundberg hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Lynn. Sundberg reaches second base with a double.

Top 9 Putnam strikes out.

Bottom 8 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Kern fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 8 Remy is called out on strikes.

Bottom 8 Evans hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Zisk. Evans reaches second base with a double.

Bottom 8 Brohamer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Frias scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 8 Zisk hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Remy settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 8 Staub hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Fisk settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 8 Bell is called out on strikes.

Bottom 7 Fisk hits a fly ball into left field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 7 Perez is called out on strikes.

Bottom 7 Pepe Frias now playing shortstop. Yastrzemski hits a line drive towards short. Frias reaches out and makes the catch for the out.

Top 7 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards first. Perez scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Oliver for the out.

Top 7 Tom Burgmeier now pitching. Wills hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Burgmeier fields it and throws to home to get Putnam. Norris moves to third. Rivers moves to second.

Top 7 Rivers takes first base on ball four. Putnam moves to third. Norris moves to second.

Top 7 Jim Norris pinch hits for Nelson Norman. Norris takes first base on ball four.

Top 7 Sundberg bunts towards the mound. Drago fields it and throws to first for the out. Putnam moves to second.

Top 7 Putnam takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 6 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman fields it and throws to second for the out.

Bottom 6 Lynn is walked intentionally.

Bottom 6 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Kern has Brohamer trapped. There's the throw to Sundberg and over to Bell, who tags Brohamer for the out. Remy moves to third. Burleson moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.

Bottom 6 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Kern fields it and throws to second for the out. Brohamer moves to third.

Bottom 6 Jim Kern now pitching. Evans hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Fisk scores. Brohamer moves to second.

Bottom 6 Brohamer hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Fisk moves to third.

Bottom 6 Fisk hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

Top 6 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brohamer fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.

Top 6 Dick Drago now pitching. Staub hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Bell scores.

Top 6 Bell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rice. Bell reaches second base with a double. Oliver scores.

Top 6 Oliver hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Lynn. Oliver reaches second base with a double.

Top 6 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards first. Perez scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Wills for the out.

Bottom 5 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 5 The ball gets by Sundberg for a passed ball. Yastrzemski moves to second.

Bottom 5 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.

Bottom 5 Rice hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Sundberg settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 5 Lynn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 5 Rivers is called out on strikes.

Top 5 Norman hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 5 Sundberg hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Remy settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 4 Burleson hits a popup towards third. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 4 Remy hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Evans moves to second.

Bottom 4 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman fields it and throws to second for the out.

Bottom 4 Brohamer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

Bottom 4 Fisk strikes out.

Top 4 Putnam hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Rainey fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.

Top 4 Zisk hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Bell scores. Staub moves to second.

Top 4 Staub hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Bell moves to second.

Top 4 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards second base. Remy fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.

Top 4 Oliver takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 3 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 3 Adrian Devine now pitching. Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 3 Rice hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Oliver who is chasing the ball. Rice reaches third base with a triple.

Bottom 3 Lynn hits a line drive into left field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 3 Wills is called out on strikes.

Top 3 Rivers hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

Top 3 Norman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Sundberg moves to second.

Top 3 Sundberg takes first base on ball four.

Top 3 Putnam hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Rainey fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 2 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 2 Remy hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Evans scores. Remy moves to second.

Bottom 2 Evans hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Zisk. Evans reaches second base with a double. Brohamer scores.

Bottom 2 There's a wild pitch. Brohamer moves to third.

Bottom 2 Brohamer hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Zisk. Brohamer reaches second base with a double. Yastrzemski scores. Perez goes all the way around to score.

Bottom 2 Fisk hits a popup towards third. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 2 Perez takes first base on ball four. Yastrzemski moves to second.

Bottom 2 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.

Bottom 2 Rice is called out on strikes.

Top 2 Zisk hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Remy reaches out and makes the catch for the out.

Top 2 Staub hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Fisk settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 2 Bell is called out on strikes.

Bottom 1 Lynn hits a fly ball into center field. Rivers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 1 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 1 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Medich fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 1 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 1 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards first. Perez scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Wills for the out.

Top 1 Rivers hits a popup towards short. Burleson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

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Putnam strikes out. Fisk drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Putnam out.

Rangers @ Red Sox
April 20, 1980