Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins
June 8, 1985 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 8, 1985 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota Twins 1

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Law lf 4 0 0 0
Hulett 3b 4 0 0 0
Baines rf 3 1 1 0
Walker 1b 4 1 1 2
Fisk c 3 0 1 0
Kittle dh 3 1 1 1
Boston cf 4 0 0 0
Cruz 2b 4 0 2 0
Guillen ss 3 0 0 0
Burns p 0 0 0 0
  James p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 6 3
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Puckett cf 4 0 1 0
Teufel 2b 4 1 1 0
Hatcher lf 3 0 0 0
Brunansky rf 4 0 0 0
Smalley dh 3 0 1 1
Hrbek 1b 3 0 0 0
Gaetti 3b 3 0 0 0
Gagne ss 2 0 0 0
  Bush ph 1 0 1 0
  Washington pr,ss 0 0 0 0
Laudner c 2 0 0 0
  Stenhouse ph 1 0 1 0
  Meier pr 0 0 0 0
  Salas c 0 0 0 0
Butcher p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Chicago 200 100 000360
Minnesota 100 000 000150
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Burns  W (7-5) 6.2 3 1 1 2 3
  James  SV (12) 2.1 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
2
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Butcher  L (4-5) 9.0 6 3 3 1 3
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
1
3

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 2.  2B–Chicago Baines (11,off Butcher).  HR–Chicago Walker (8,1st inning off Butcher 1 on, 2 out); Kittle (8,4th inning off Butcher 0 on, 1 out).  HBP–Fisk (4,by Butcher); Kittle (2,by Butcher).  CS–Fisk (5,2nd base by Butcher/Laudner).  HBP–Butcher 2 (3,Fisk,Kittle).  T–2:12.  A–29,001.
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