1983 Texas Rangers season

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.

Opening Day starters

 * Buddy Bell
 * Bucky Dent
 * Dave Hostetler
 * Pete O'Brien
 * Larry Parrish
 * Mike Richardt
 * 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.

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''

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
All-Star Game
 * Buddy Bell, 3B, Gold Glove 1983

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

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.