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July 9, 1979

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Top 9 R H E
Rangers 4 9 1
White Sox 5 9 0
Top 9 R H E
Rangers 4 9 1
White Sox 5 9 0

Billy Sample Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .281
OBP .500 .376
At Bats 3 196
Hits 1 55
• Singles 0 40
• Doubles 0 9
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 1 5
Walks 1 29
RBI’s 1 25

Randy Scarbery Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 3 3
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Comiskey Park - July 9, 1979
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Strikeout
Randy Scarbery
Milt May
Lamar Johnson
Alan Bannister
Greg Pryor
Don Kessinger
Rusty Torres
Chet Lemon
Claudell Washington
Billy Sample
Al Oliver

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Texas Rangers 4 9 1 7
Chicago White Sox 5 9 0 7
Winning Pitcher Ross Baumgarten
Losing Pitcher Fergie Jenkins
Save Randy Scarbery
Game Winning RBI (none)
Attendance 22,279
Time of Game 2 hours 26 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Sample is called out on strikes.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Wills strikes out.
Top 9 Larvell Blanks pinch hits for Nelson Norman. Blanks hits a fly ball into right field. Washington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Al Oliver pinch hits for LaRue Washington. Oliver hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Washington. Oliver reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 8 Kessinger hits a fly ball into left field. Sample settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 May hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Pryor moves to third.
Bottom 8 Pryor hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Washington 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 8 Oscar Gamble now playing right field. Jim Sundberg now catching. Mike Jorgensen now playing first base. Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Mike Jorgensen pinch hits for Dave Roberts. Jorgensen hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Scarbery fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Johnny Grubb pinch hits for Eric Soderholm. Randy Scarbery now pitching. Grubb takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Sundberg hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pryor fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Pat Putnam pinch hits for John Ellis. Guy Hoffman now pitching. Jim Sundberg pinch hits for Pat Putnam. The umpire calls a balk on Hoffman Bell moves to third.
Top 8 Oscar Gamble pinch hits for Richie Zisk. Ed Farmer now pitching. Gamble hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Farmer fields it and throws to first for the out. Bell moves to second.
Top 8 Rusty Torres now playing left field. Bell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 7 Orta strikes out.
Bottom 7 Sparky Lyle now pitching. Rusty Torres pinch hits for Ralph Garr. Torres bunts towards first. Ellis juggles the ball. That's an error on Ellis. Bannister moves to second.
Bottom 7 Bannister hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Sample strikes out.
Top 7 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pryor fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Don Kessinger now playing shortstop. Greg Pryor now playing third base. Norman hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Mike Squires pinch hits for Kevin Bell. Squires 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 6 May hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Lemon scores. Washington moves to third.
Bottom 6 Pryor is hit by the pitch. Johnson scores. Lemon moves to third. Washington moves to second.
Bottom 6 Washington is walked intentionally.
Bottom 6 Lemon hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Sample. Lemon reaches second base with a double. Orta scores. Johnson moves to third.
Bottom 6 Johnson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Orta moves to second.
Bottom 6 Orta hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Washington hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pryor scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Roberts hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Soderholm hits a fly ball into left field. Garr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Garr hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Bannister hits a fly ball into center field. Washington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Bell takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Ellis strikes out.
Top 5 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pryor fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Sample moves to second.
Top 5 Bell hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Norman tags and scores. Wills scores.
Top 5 Sample takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Wills hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Garr. Wills reaches second base with a double. Roberts scores. Norman moves to third.
Top 5 Norman hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Roberts moves to third.
Top 5 Washington hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 There goes Roberts. The throw from May and he is safe. Roberts steals second.
Top 5 Roberts hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 May hits a ball on the ground towards first. Ellis scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats May for the out.
Bottom 4 Pryor hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Jenkins fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Washington hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Wills reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Soderholm hits a fly ball into right field. Washington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Ellis hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pryor scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Bell hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Bannister settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Sample hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Jenkins fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Orta hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Garr moves to third.
Bottom 3 Garr hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Zisk. Garr reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Wills hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Norman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bannister scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Washington hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Bannister hits a fly ball into left field. Sample settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Bell strikes out.
Bottom 2 May hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Roberts hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 2 Soderholm takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Ellis hits a ball on the ground towards first. Johnson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Ellis for the out.
Bottom 1 Pryor hits a popup towards third. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Washington strikes out.
Bottom 1 Lemon hits a fly ball into left field. Sample settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Garr tags and scores.
Bottom 1 Johnson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Bannister scores. Garr moves to third. Orta moves to second.
Bottom 1 Orta takes first base on ball four. Garr moves to second.
Bottom 1 Garr hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Bannister moves to third.
Bottom 1 There goes Bannister. The throw from Roberts and he is safe. Bannister steals second.
Bottom 1 Bannister takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Zisk hits a fly ball into left field. Garr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bannister fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Sample hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Wills hits a fly ball into right field. Washington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.