Texas Rangers vs Minnesota Twins
June 1, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 1, 1988 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Texas Rangers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Texas Rangers 1, Minnesota Twins 7

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Brower cf 4 0 1 0
Fletcher ss 4 0 1 0
Sierra rf 4 0 0 0
Incaviglia lf 4 1 2 0
O'Brien 1b 4 0 0 0
Parrish dh 4 0 0 0
Stanley c 2 0 0 0
Buechele 3b 3 0 1 1
Browne 2b 3 0 0 0
Guzman p 0 0 0 0
  Fossas p 0 0 0 0
  McMurtry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 5 1
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 4 2 1 0
Lombardozzi 2b 3 2 1 1
Puckett cf 5 2 3 3
  Moses cf 0 0 0 0
Hrbek dh 4 0 2 1
Gaetti 3b 4 0 2 1
Bush rf 2 0 0 0
  Davidson ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Larkin 1b 4 0 2 0
Laudner c 4 0 0 0
Gagne ss 4 1 2 0
Viola p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 7 13 6
Texas 000 000 100152
Minnesota 000 043 00x7130
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Guzman  L (5-4) 5.2 10 7 7 4 4
  Fossas   0.0 2 0 0 0 0
  McMurtry   2.1 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
13
7
7
4
5
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Viola  W (9-1) 9.0 5 1 1 1 2
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
1
2

  E–Fletcher (5), Incaviglia (1).  DP–Texas 2.  2B–Minnesota Puckett 2 (15,off Guzman 2); Gagne (6,off Guzman); Gaetti 2 (14,off Guzman,off Fossas).  SB–Gagne (3,2nd base off Guzman/Stanley); Gladden (11,2nd base off Guzman/Stanley).  WP–Guzman (4).  BK–Viola (1).  U-HP–Ken Kaiser, 1B–Terry Craft, 2B–Don Denkinger, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–2:38.  A–22,361.
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