Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
May 7, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 7, 1988 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 2, Minnesota Twins 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Anderson cf 4 0 0 0
Barrett 2b 3 0 3 1
Boggs 3b 4 0 0 0
Evans 1b 4 1 1 0
Greenwell lf 2 0 0 0
Horn dh 4 0 0 0
Benzinger rf 4 0 1 1
Cerone c 4 0 1 0
Reed ss 2 1 1 0
  Rice ph 1 0 0 0
Ellsworth p 0 0 0 0
  Smithson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 4 1 2 2
Herr 2b 3 0 1 0
Puckett cf 4 0 1 0
Hrbek dh 3 1 1 2
Gaetti 3b 4 0 0 0
Larkin 1b 4 1 1 0
Bush rf 3 1 2 1
  Davidson pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Gagne ss 3 1 0 0
Nieto c 3 0 0 0
Blyleven p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 5
Boston 001 100 000271
Minnesota 200 003 00x580
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Ellsworth  L (1-4) 5.2 7 5 5 4 5
  Smithson   2.1 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
4
7
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Blyleven  W (2-3) 9.0 7 2 2 3 6
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
3
6

  E–Barrett (2).  DP–Minnesota 1.  2B–Minnesota Gladden 2 (10,off Ellsworth 2); Larkin (8,off Ellsworth); Bush (4,off Ellsworth).  3B–Boston Reed (1,off Blyleven).  HR–Minnesota Hrbek (6,1st inning off Ellsworth 1 on, 2 out).  HBP–Barrett (1,by Blyleven).  IBB–Bush (6,by Ellsworth).  CS–Barrett (2,2nd base by Blyleven/Nieto).  SB–Herr (4,2nd base off Ellsworth/Cerone); Davidson (1,2nd base off Smithson/Cerone).  WP–Ellsworth (1).  HBP–Blyleven (5,Barrett).  IBB–Ellsworth (1,Bush).  U-HP–Vic Voltaggio, 1B–Dale Scott, 2B–Dan Morrison, 3B–Dave Phillips.  T–2:43.  A–33,416.
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