Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
May 16, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 16, 1987 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."

"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 6, Minnesota Twins 1

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 4 1 2 0
Romero 2b 4 1 1 0
  Barrett 2b 0 0 0 0
Boggs 3b 3 2 1 2
Baylor dh 4 1 1 1
Evans rf 4 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 4 1 1 3
Greenwell lf 3 0 0 0
  Henderson lf 1 0 0 0
Owen ss 2 0 0 0
Gedman c 3 0 0 0
Clemens p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 6 6
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Newman ss 4 0 1 0
Bush rf 4 0 1 0
Puckett cf 4 1 2 0
Hrbek 1b 4 0 1 0
Gaetti 3b 3 0 2 1
Smalley dh 4 0 1 0
Brunansky lf 3 0 0 0
Lombardozzi 2b 3 0 0 0
Nieto c 2 0 0 0
  Salas ph,c 1 0 0 0
Blyleven p 0 0 0 0
  Reardon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 8 1
Boston 200 000 004660
Minnesota 000 000 001180
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Clemens  W (3-3) 9.0 8 1 1 3 7
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
3
7
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Blyleven  L (3-3) 8.1 5 5 5 2 6
  Reardon   0.2 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
6
6
2
7

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2, Minnesota 1.  2B–Boston Burks (7,off Blyleven); Baylor (6,off Blyleven).  HR–Boston Boggs (6,1st inning off Blyleven 1 on, 1 out); Buckner (1,9th inning off Reardon 2 on, 2 out).  IBB–Boggs (4,by Blyleven).  CS–Newman (4,2nd base by Clemens/Gedman).  WP–Blyleven (4).  IBB–Blyleven (2,Boggs).  U-HP–Rocky Roe, 1B–Larry Barnett, 2B–Greg Kosc, 3B–Vic Voltaggio.  T–2:31.  A–23,414.
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