Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
July 8, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 8, 1986 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Minnesota Twins 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

Detroit Tigers 5, Minnesota Twins 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 4 1 2 0
Trammell ss 5 1 1 0
Gibson rf 4 1 2 3
Parrish c 4 1 2 1
Evans dh 4 1 2 1
Bergman 1b 4 0 0 0
Lemon cf 3 0 1 0
Collins lf 3 0 2 0
Brookens 3b 3 0 0 0
King p 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 12 5
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Puckett cf 4 0 0 0
Bush lf 3 1 1 0
Hrbek 1b 3 0 1 0
Brunansky rf 4 0 0 0
Smalley dh 3 0 1 1
Gaetti 3b,ss 4 0 0 0
Salas c 4 0 1 0
Lombardozzi 2b 2 0 0 0
Gagne ss 1 0 0 0
  Hatcher ph,3b 2 0 0 0
Blyleven p 0 0 0 0
  Pastore p 0 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 4 1
Detroit 000 400 0105120
Minnesota 000 001 000141
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
King  W (5-1) 8.2 4 1 1 5 4
  Hernandez  SV (18) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
5
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Blyleven  L (7-8) 7.2 11 5 5 1 5
  Pastore   0.2 1 0 0 2 0
  Davis   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
5
5
3
5

  E–Salas (5).  DP–Detroit 1, Minnesota 3.  2B–Detroit Lemon (13,off Pastore), Minnesota Hrbek (17,off King); Bush (10,off King); Smalley (16,off King); Salas (2,off King).  HR–Detroit Gibson (11,4th inning off Blyleven 1 on, 1 out); Parrish (19,4th inning off Blyleven 0 on, 1 out); Evans (16,4th inning off Blyleven 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Brookens (4,off Pastore).  SF–Gibson (1,off Blyleven).  IBB–Whitaker (2,by Pastore).  HBP–Gagne (2,by King).  SB–Trammell (11,2nd base off Blyleven/Salas); Gagne (8,2nd base off King/Parrish).  CS–Whitaker (4,2nd base by Blyleven/Salas).  WP–King (3).  HBP–King (2,Gagne).  IBB–Pastore (6,Whitaker).  U-HP–Terry Cooney, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Joe Brinkman, 3B–Tim Tschida.  T–3:00.  A–16,320.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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