The Texas Rangers 1983 season involved the Rangers finishing third in the American League West with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses. The Rangers did break a Major League Baseball record for the most runs ever scored by one team during a single extra inning.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day starters

* Buddy Bell *

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* Dave Hostetler * Pete O'Brien * Larry Parrish *

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* Billy Sample * Mike Smithson * Jim Sundberg * George Wright

Notable transactions

* August 19, 1983: Rick Honeycutt was traded by the Rangers to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Dave Stewart, a player to be named later and $200,000. The Dodgers completed by sending Ricky Wright to the Rangers on September 16.

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

''Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in''

Other batters

''Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in''

Pitching

Starting pitchers

''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts''

Other pitchers

''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts''

Relief pitchers

''Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts''

Awards and honors

* Buddy Bell, 3B,

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1983 All-Star Game

Team leaders

* Larry Parrish, Home Runs, 26 * Larry Parrish, RBI, 88 * Billy Sample, Runs, 80 * Billy Sample, Stolen bases, 44 * Buddy Bell, Batting average, .277 * George Wright, Hits, 175

Farm system

Notable events

*July 3 — The Rangers score twelve runs in the fifteenth inning to defeat the Oakland Athletics 16–4, in the process breaking the MLB record for most runs scored during one single extra inning, previously held by the 1928 New York Yankees.'Rangers Rout A's 16–4 in 15-Inning Marathon'; ''

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Notes

References

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