Baltimore Orioles vs Minnesota Twins
July 5, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 5, 1986 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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)
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Baltimore Orioles 6, Minnesota Twins 7

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Bonilla 2b 5 1 2 0
Lacy rf 4 1 1 0
Ripken, Jr. ss 5 1 2 4
Murray dh 5 1 2 0
Lynn cf 3 1 1 2
Beniquez 1b 4 0 1 0
Paris 3b 4 0 0 0
Shelby lf 4 0 0 0
Dempsey c 4 1 2 0
Flanagan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 11 6
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Puckett cf 4 1 1 1
Hatcher 1b 4 2 1 0
Hrbek dh 3 1 0 0
Brunansky rf 3 1 1 0
Gaetti lf,3b 4 1 1 4
Lombardozzi 2b 4 1 1 0
Smalley 3b 4 0 2 1
  Davidson lf 0 0 0 0
Laudner c 4 0 1 0
Gagne ss 3 0 0 0
Viola p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 8 6
Baltimore 000 200 0226112
Minnesota 510 000 10x780
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Flanagan  L (2-6) 8.0 8 7 5 2 6
Totals
8.0
8
7
5
2
6
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Viola  W (9-6) 9.0 11 6 6 2 6
Totals
9.0
11
6
6
2
6

  E–Beniquez (9), Paris (1).  2B–Baltimore Ripken (20,off Viola), Minnesota Smalley 2 (15,off Flanagan 2); Hatcher (7,off Flanagan).  HR–Baltimore Lynn (12,4th inning off Viola 1 on, 1 out); Ripken (11,8th inning off Viola 1 on, 2 out), Minnesota Gaetti (18,1st inning off Flanagan 3 on, 1 out); Puckett (16,2nd inning off Flanagan 0 on, 0 out).  SB–Hatcher (1,2nd base off Flanagan/Dempsey).  CS–Gaetti (9,2nd base by Flanagan/Dempsey).  WP–Viola (9).  U-HP–Derryl Cousins, 1B–Dale Scott, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Ted Hendry.  T–2:36.  A–14,716.
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