Red Sox @ Rangers
July 28, 1979

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Bottom 9 R H E
Red Sox 1 6 1
Rangers 0 7 0
Bottom 9 R H E
Red Sox 1 6 1
Rangers 0 7 0

John Ellis Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .261
OBP .000 .292
At Bats 0 207
Hits 0 54
• Singles 0 37
• Doubles 0 7
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 10
Walks 0 8
RBI’s 0 45

Dennis Eckersley Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
11 5 0
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Arlington Stadium - July 28, 1979
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Out
Dennis Eckersley
Carlton Fisk
Bob Watson
Jack Brohamer
Butch Hobson
Rick Burleson
Carl Yastrzemski
Fred Lynn
Dwight Evans
John Ellis

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Boston Red Sox 1 6 1 9
Texas Rangers 0 7 0 8
Winning Pitcher Dennis Eckersley
Losing Pitcher Fergie Jenkins
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Jim Dwyer
Attendance 35,207
Time of Game 2 hours 32 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

John Ellis pinch hits for Jim Sundberg. Ellis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Soderholm hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Gamble hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Burleson hits a popup towards short. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Hobson strikes out. There goes Fisk. Here's the throw, and he's safe.
Top 9 Brohamer bunts towards first. Putnam settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Fisk hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Zisk hits a popup towards short. Burleson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Putnam hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Oliver hits a line drive into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Watson hits a fly ball into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Roberts scoops it up and throws to first, with Jenkins covering, for the out.
Top 8 Dave Roberts now playing second base. Eric Soderholm now playing third base. Buddy Bell now playing shortstop. Billy Sample now playing left fieldRice hits a fly ball into left field. Sample settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Bell hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Grubb takes first base on ball four. Sundberg moves to second.
Bottom 7 Billy Sample pinch hits for Nelson Norman. Sample strikes out.
Bottom 7 Sundberg takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Dwight Evans now playing right field. Mike Jorgensen pinch hits for Larvell Blanks. Jorgensen hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Lynn strikes out.
Top 7 Dwyer hits a fly ball into right field. Grubb settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Gamble hits a popup towards short. Burleson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Zisk hits a fly ball into right field. Dwyer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Putnam hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Hobson strikes out.
Top 6 Brohamer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Fisk hits a fly ball into right field. Grubb settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Watson hits a fly ball into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Oliver hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Brohamer reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Bell hits a line drive into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Grubb hits a ball on the ground towards first. Watson fields the ball and throws to Eckersley covering. Safe.
Bottom 5 Norman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blanks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Rice hits a fly ball into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Lynn takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Dwyer strikes out.
Bottom 4 Sundberg hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Blanks hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hobson juggles the ball. That's an error on Hobson.
Bottom 4 Gamble hits a line drive into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Zisk hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Dwyer. Zisk reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Putnam hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Burleson hits a fly ball into left field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Hobson takes first base on ball four. Fisk moves to third. Brohamer moves to second.
Top 4 Brohamer takes first base on ball four. Fisk moves to second.
Top 4 Fisk hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Watson hits a line drive towards short. Norman reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into left field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Oliver hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Bell hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Grubb hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Sundberg moves to second.
Bottom 3 Norman strikes out.
Bottom 3 Sundberg hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Lynn takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Dwyer hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Oliver. Dwyer reaches second base with a double. Hobson scores.
Top 3 Burleson hits a fly ball into right field. Grubb settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Hobson hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Oliver. Hobson reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Brohamer hits a fly ball into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Blanks hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Eckersley fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Gamble strikes out.
Bottom 2 Zisk hits a popup, foul, towards third. Hobson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Putnam hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Fisk hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Yastrzemski strikes out.
Bottom 1 Oliver hits a popup towards second. Brohamer catches it and throws to first to double up Bell. The throw to third to get Grubb, who's caught in a rundown, and tagged by Hobson. That's a triple play.
Bottom 1 Bell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Grubb moves to third.
Bottom 1 Grubb hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Rice strikes out.
Top 1 Lynn hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Dwyer hits a fly ball into right field. Grubb settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Burleson hits a fly ball into right field. Grubb settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.