Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
May 28, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1988 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 2, Minnesota Twins 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Sheridan cf 4 1 1 1
Whitaker 2b 4 0 2 0
Nokes c 2 1 1 0
Trammell ss 4 0 2 0
Evans 1b 4 0 0 0
Lemon rf 2 0 0 0
Salazar lf 4 0 1 1
Bergman dh 4 0 0 0
Brookens 3b 3 0 0 0
Terrell p 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 7 2
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 4 1 2 0
Herr 2b 4 0 0 0
Puckett cf 4 1 2 2
Hrbek 1b 4 1 1 1
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 2
Bush rf 1 0 0 0
  Davidson ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Larkin dh 3 0 0 0
Laudner c 2 0 0 0
Lombardozzi ss 2 1 0 0
  Gagne ss 0 0 0 0
Straker p 0 0 0 0
  Atherton p 0 0 0 0
  Reardon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 5 6 5
Detroit 000 000 110270
Minnesota 002 000 03x560
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Terrell  L (2-2) 7.2 6 5 5 4 2
  Hernandez   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
6
5
5
4
2
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Straker   6.1 5 1 1 2 3
  Atherton  W (3-1) 1.2 2 1 1 0 1
  Reardon  SV (11) 1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
3
4

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1, Minnesota 2.  2B–Detroit Whitaker (7,off Straker).  HR–Detroit Sheridan (3,8th inning off Atherton 0 on, 0 out), Minnesota Puckett (6,3rd inning off Terrell 1 on, 2 out); Gaetti (9,8th inning off Terrell 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Nokes (1,off Atherton).  WP–Straker (4).  U-HP–Joe Brinkman, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–2:33.  A–38,403.
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