Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
May 24, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 24, 1987 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."

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Detroit Tigers 7, Minnesota Twins 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 5 1 2 0
Evans 1b 3 1 0 0
  Brookens 3b 0 0 0 0
Gibson lf 5 2 3 1
Trammell ss 4 2 2 0
Nokes c 4 0 1 1
Sheridan rf 2 0 0 0
  Lemon ph,cf 1 0 1 1
Grubb dh 4 0 1 2
Bean cf,rf 5 0 0 0
Coles 3b 4 1 1 0
  Bergman 1b 0 0 0 0
Robinson p 0 0 0 0
  Henneman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 7 11 5
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 3 0 0 0
  Bush ph 1 0 0 0
Gagne ss 2 0 0 0
  Smalley ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Puckett cf 4 0 1 0
Hrbek 1b 3 2 2 1
Gaetti 3b 4 0 0 0
Larkin dh 3 0 0 1
Brunansky rf 4 0 0 0
Lombardozzi 2b 4 0 0 0
Salas c 4 0 3 0
Straker p 0 0 0 0
  Atherton p 0 0 0 0
  Berenguer p 0 0 0 0
  Klink p 0 0 0 0
  Frazier p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 6 2
Detroit 000 000 5027112
Minnesota 010 000 010261
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Robinson  W (3-2) 8.0 5 2 1 3 9
  Henneman   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
2
1
3
10
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Straker   6.1 6 1 0 2 5
  Atherton  L (2-1) 0.0 0 2 2 2 0
  Berenguer   0.2 2 2 2 2 0
  Klink   1.1 2 2 2 0 2
  Frazier   0.2 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
11
7
6
7
9

  E–Trammell 2 (5), Gaetti (5).  PB–Salas (2).  2B–Detroit Lemon (6,off Frazier), Minnesota Salas 2 (2,off Robinson 2).  HR–Minnesota Hrbek (8,8th inning off Robinson 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Nokes (1,off Klink).  HBP–Bergman (1,by Frazier).  IBB–Sheridan 2 (2,by Straker,by Berenguer); Trammell (2,by Berenguer).  SF–Larkin (1,off Robinson).  SB–Trammell (5,2nd base off Straker/Salas); Gladden (5,2nd base off Robinson/Nokes).  CS–Salas (1,Home by Robinson/Nokes).  WP–Straker (1), Berenguer (2).  HBP–Frazier (1,Bergman).  IBB–Straker (1,Sheridan); Berenguer 2 (2,Trammell,Sheridan).  U-HP–Jim Evans, 1B–Ted Hendry, 2B–Mark Johnson, 3B–Derryl Cousins.  T–3:07.  A–16,351.
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