Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
August 19, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 19, 1986 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 5 0 1 0
Barrett 2b 4 0 1 0
Greenwell dh 3 1 2 0
Rice lf 4 0 0 0
Evans rf 3 0 3 0
Buckner 1b 4 0 2 1
Armas cf 4 0 0 0
Gedman c 3 0 0 0
Owen ss 3 0 0 0
  Henderson ph 1 0 0 0
Nipper p 0 0 0 0
  Stewart p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 9 1
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Lombardozzi 2b 4 0 1 0
Bush lf 4 0 0 0
  Beane lf 0 0 0 0
Puckett cf 4 1 3 1
Hrbek 1b 3 2 3 1
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 2
Brunansky rf 4 0 2 0
Smalley dh 3 0 0 0
Reed c 4 0 1 0
Gagne ss 3 1 1 0
Portugal p 0 0 0 0
  Frazier p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 12 4
Boston 000 000 010191
Minnesota 002 012 00x5120
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nipper  L (8-8) 5.0 7 3 3 1 2
  Stewart   3.0 5 2 2 2 3
Totals
8.0
12
5
5
3
5
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Portugal  W (4-8) 7.2 9 1 1 3 2
  Frazier  SV (1) 1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
3
3

  E–Buckner (13).  DP–Boston 2, Minnesota 2.  2B–Boston Evans (27,off Portugal); Buckner (32,off Portugal), Minnesota Brunansky (22,off Stewart); Puckett (31,off Stewart).  HR–Minnesota Puckett (25,3rd inning off Nipper 0 on, 2 out); Hrbek (25,3rd inning off Nipper 0 on, 2 out); Gaetti (25,6th inning off Stewart 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Lombardozzi (7,off Nipper).  IBB–Hrbek (6,by Stewart).  BK–Nipper (1).  IBB–Stewart (2,Hrbek).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Jim McKean, 2B–John Shulock, 3B–Dan Morrison.  T–2:29.  A–13,698.
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