Oakland Athletics vs Minnesota Twins
April 28, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 28, 1985 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Oakland Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Oakland Athletics 1, Minnesota Twins 10

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 4 0 0 0
  Picciolo ss 1 0 0 0
Lansford 3b 4 0 0 0
  Heath rf 0 0 0 0
Bochte 1b 4 1 1 0
  Henderson lf 0 0 0 0
Kingman dh 4 0 3 0
Murphy cf 2 0 1 0
  Meyer ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Baker lf,1b 4 0 1 1
Davis rf,cf 4 0 1 0
Tettleton c 3 0 0 0
Hill 2b 3 0 0 0
Warren p 0 0 0 0
  McCatty p 0 0 0 0
  Tellmann p 0 0 0 0
  Conroy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 7 1
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Puckett cf 5 1 2 3
Hatcher lf 5 2 4 2
Hrbek 1b 4 0 2 1
Brunansky rf 3 0 0 1
Smalley dh 5 1 2 0
Gaetti 3b 5 2 2 0
Gagne ss 2 1 0 0
Teufel 2b 3 1 0 0
Salas c 4 2 2 3
Smithson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 10 14 10
Oakland 000 000 010170
Minnesota 100 015 30x10140
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Warren  L (1-2) 5.1 7 4 4 3 5
  McCatty   0.0 2 3 3 1 0
  Tellmann   1.2 5 3 3 0 1
  Conroy   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
14
10
10
5
7
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Smithson  W (3-2) 9.0 7 1 1 3 4
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
3
4

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 1.  2B–Minnesota Hatcher 2 (6,off Warren 2); Hrbek (4,off Warren); Puckett (3,off McCatty); Gaetti (7,off Tellmann).  3B–Minnesota Hrbek (1,off Warren); Salas (1,off Tellmann).  SF–Brunansky (3,off Warren).  SB–Davis (4,2nd base off Smithson/Salas); Gagne (1,2nd base off Warren/Tettleton).  BK–Warren (1).  T–2:58.  A–17,797.
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