Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
May 31, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 1986 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 7, Minnesota Twins 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Barrett 2b 5 0 0 0
Boggs 3b 5 2 5 1
Buckner 1b 5 1 1 2
  Stapleton 1b 0 0 0 0
Rice lf 4 0 2 1
Baylor dh 4 1 2 1
Gedman c 5 1 2 0
Evans rf 5 0 0 0
Lyons cf 4 1 2 1
Quinones ss 3 1 0 0
Hurst p 0 0 0 0
  Stewart p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 7 14 6
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Puckett cf 5 1 3 1
Hatcher lf 2 0 0 0
  Bush ph,lf 3 0 0 0
Hrbek 1b 3 0 0 0
Brunansky rf 4 0 1 0
Gaetti 3b 3 0 0 0
Laudner c 3 0 0 0
  Reed ph 1 0 0 0
Lombardozzi 2b 2 0 0 0
  Smalley ph,ss 1 1 1 0
Washington dh 2 0 0 0
  David ph,dh 2 0 1 0
Gagne ss,2b 3 0 0 0
Smithson p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 6 1
Boston 060 100 0007141
Minnesota 000 000 011261
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Hurst  W (5-3) 5.0 2 0 0 1 5
  Stewart   3.1 4 2 1 3 3
  Stanley   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
2
1
4
8
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Smithson  L (5-4) 5.0 11 7 3 2 2
  Jackson   3.0 2 0 0 1 0
  Davis   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
14
7
3
3
3

  E–Quinones (4), Hatcher (3).  2B–Boston Gedman 2 (9,off Smithson,off Davis); Buckner (14,off Smithson); Lyons 2 (5,off Smithson,off Jackson); Boggs (16,off Smithson).  3B–Minnesota Brunansky (1,off Hurst).  SF–Lyons (1,off Smithson); Baylor (2,off Smithson).  WP–Hurst (4), Smithson (3).  U-HP–Joe Brinkman, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–Steve Palermo.  T–2:59.  A–20,217.
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