Cleveland Indians vs Minnesota Twins
April 22, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 22, 1988 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Cleveland Indians 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

Cleveland Indians 11, Minnesota Twins 6

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Franco 2b 3 2 0 0
Upshaw 1b 5 1 1 0
Carter cf 5 2 3 4
Kittle dh 4 1 0 0
Hall lf 5 2 2 2
Jacoby 3b 4 1 1 0
Snyder rf 4 1 2 4
Bell ss 5 0 1 1
Allanson c 4 1 2 0
Swindell p 0 0 0 0
  Codiroli p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 11 12 11
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 5 0 1 1
Gagne ss 4 1 1 0
Puckett cf 5 2 2 1
Gaetti 3b 3 0 0 0
Larkin dh 3 1 2 3
Brunansky rf 4 0 1 1
Hrbek 1b 3 0 0 0
Lombardozzi 2b 4 1 1 0
Nieto c 4 1 1 0
Blyleven p 0 0 0 0
  Mason p 0 0 0 0
  Atherton p 0 0 0 0
  Niekro p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 6 9 6
Cleveland 600 010 04011121
Minnesota 000 103 200690
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Swindell  W (4-0) 6.0 8 6 5 1 3
  Codiroli   0.2 1 0 0 1 0
  Jones  SV (3) 2.1 0 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
9
6
5
3
6
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Blyleven  L (1-2) 4.2 9 7 7 0 5
  Mason   2.1 2 3 3 2 2
  Atherton   1.0 1 1 1 0 1
  Niekro   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
12
11
11
2
9

  E–Franco (3).  PB–Nieto (1).  2B–Minnesota Larkin (4,off Swindell); Puckett (5,off Swindell).  3B–Minnesota Gagne (1,off Swindell).  HR–Cleveland Snyder (5,1st inning off Blyleven 3 on, 1 out); Carter (3,8th inning off Atherton 3 on, 0 out), Minnesota Larkin (1,6th inning off Swindell 1 on, 1 out).  HBP–Franco (1,by Blyleven); Kittle (1,by Blyleven); Jacoby (1,by Blyleven); Allanson (1,by Blyleven).  SH–Gagne (3,off Codiroli).  BK–Blyleven (3).  HBP–Blyleven 4 (4,Franco,Kittle,Jacoby,Allanson).  U-HP–John Hirschbeck, 1B–Nick Bremigan, 2B–Tim Tschida, 3B–Rick Reed.  T–3:09.  A–24,466.
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