Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
May 20, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1985 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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Boston Red Sox 2, Minnesota Twins 5
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 5 1 2 1
Evans rf 4 0 1 0
Rice lf 4 0 1 0
Buckner 1b 4 0 2 1
Armas cf 4 0 1 0
Easler dh 3 0 0 0
Gedman c 4 0 1 0
  Jurak pr 0 0 0 0
Barrett 2b 2 0 1 0
  Miller ph 1 1 1 0
  Hoffman 2b 0 0 0 0
Gutierrez ss 3 0 0 0
  Lyons ph 0 0 0 0
  Nichols ph 1 0 0 0
Nipper p 0 0 0 0
  Clear p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 10 2
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Puckett cf 3 0 0 0
Hatcher lf 3 1 1 1
Hrbek 1b 3 1 1 0
Brunansky rf 4 1 1 1
Bush dh 4 0 0 0
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 1
Teufel 2b 3 0 1 1
Gagne ss 3 1 2 1
Salas c 3 0 0 0
Butcher p 0 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Wardle p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 7 5
Boston 000 000 020–2100
Minnesota 001 004 00x–570
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nipper  L (1-3) 5.1 5 5 5 2 3
  Clear   2.2 2 0 0 1 4
Totals
8.0
7
5
5
3
7
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Butcher  W (4-2) 7.1 8 2 2 0 2
  Davis   0.2 2 0 0 3 1
  Wardle  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
10
2
2
3
5
  E–None.  DP–Boston 1, Minnesota 2.  2B–Boston Armas (7,off Butcher); Miller (2,off Butcher); Buckner (12,off Davis), Minnesota Gagne (8,off Nipper).  HBP–Teufel (2,by Nipper).  WP–Davis (2).  HBP–Nipper (4,Teufel).  T–2:30.  A–19,583.
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