Minnesota Twins vs Detroit Tigers
May 2, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 2, 1986 at Tiger Stadium. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers 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

Minnesota Twins 10, Detroit Tigers 1

Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Puckett cf 6 3 3 2
Bush lf 2 0 1 2
  Beane ph,lf 3 0 0 0
Hrbek 1b 2 0 0 0
  Hatcher pr,1b 2 1 2 1
Brunansky rf 2 1 0 0
Smalley dh 3 0 0 0
Gaetti 3b 4 2 3 1
Lombardozzi 2b 2 1 1 1
Salas c 3 0 1 0
Gagne ss 3 2 1 1
Smithson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 10 12 8
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Collins cf 4 0 0 0
Madison 3b 3 0 0 1
Whitaker 2b 4 0 1 0
Parrish c 3 0 0 0
  Harper c 0 0 0 0
  Spilman ph 1 0 1 0
Evans dh 3 0 0 0
Laga 1b 4 0 1 0
Herndon lf 4 0 0 0
Sheridan rf 3 0 0 0
Trammell ss 3 1 3 0
Morris p 0 0 0 0
  Cary p 0 0 0 0
  LaPoint p 0 0 0 0
  O'Neal p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1
Minnesota 131 010 04010121
Detroit 000 001 000162
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Smithson  W (3-2) 9.0 6 1 1 1 7
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
7
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Morris  L (3-3) 1.1 4 4 4 4 0
  Cary   1.2 1 1 1 2 1
  LaPoint   4.0 4 1 0 3 1
  O'Neal   2.0 3 4 4 3 1
Totals
9.0
12
10
9
12
3

  E–Hatcher (1), Madison (1), Herndon (2).  DP–Detroit 4.  PB–Parrish (1).  2B–Detroit Whitaker (5,off Smithson); Trammell (7,off Smithson).  3B–Minnesota Bush (2,off Morris).  HR–Minnesota Puckett (10,1st inning off Morris 0 on, 0 out); Lombardozzi (2,2nd inning off Morris 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Salas (2,off Cary).  IBB–Brunansky (1,by Cary); Lombardozzi (1,by LaPoint).  SF–Madison (1,off Smithson).  CS–Bush (1,3rd base by Morris/Parrish); Hatcher (1,2nd base by LaPoint/Parrish).  BK–LaPoint (1).  IBB–Cary (3,Brunansky); LaPoint (2,Lombardozzi).  U-HP–Dan Morrison, 1B–Jim McKean, 2B–Al Clark, 3B–John Shulock.  T–3:04.  A–15,446.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook