Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins
September 9, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 9, 1987 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Chicago White 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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Chicago White Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 2

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Redus lf 4 1 1 1
Manrique 2b 4 0 1 0
Baines dh 4 0 2 0
Calderon rf 4 0 2 0
Fisk c 4 0 0 0
Walker 1b 3 0 0 0
Hill 3b 3 0 0 0
Williams cf 3 0 0 0
Guillen ss 3 0 0 0
Dotson p 0 0 0 0
  LaPoint p 0 0 0 0
  Winn p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Pittaro 2b 2 0 0 0
Bush rf 1 0 0 0
  Gladden lf 2 0 0 0
Puckett cf 3 1 1 1
Hrbek 1b 3 0 0 0
Gaetti 3b 3 0 0 0
Brunansky lf,rf 3 0 0 0
Larkin dh 2 0 0 0
Gagne ss 3 0 0 0
Laudner c 3 1 1 1
Viola p 0 0 0 0
Totals 25 2 2 2
Chicago 100 000 000161
Minnesota 000 100 001220
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Dotson   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
  LaPoint   5.0 1 1 1 1 2
  Winn  L (4-6) 2.0 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
2
2
2
2
3
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Viola  W (15-8) 9.0 6 1 1 2 9
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
9

  E–Guillen (19).  DP–Chicago 2.  2B–Chicago Calderon (31,off Viola).  HR–Chicago Redus (11,1st inning off Viola 0 on, 0 out), Minnesota Puckett (24,4th inning off LaPoint 0 on, 2 out); Laudner (16,9th inning off Winn 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Williams (8,by Viola).  HBP–Viola (6,Williams).  U-HP–Greg Kosc, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Rocky Roe, 3B–Larry Barnett.  T–2:19.  A–15,394.
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