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

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 7, 1988 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 4, Minnesota Twins 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 4 0 1 1
Barrett 2b 5 0 1 0
Evans 1b 5 0 2 0
  Romine rf 0 0 0 0
Greenwell lf 3 1 1 1
Burks cf 4 0 1 0
Rice dh 4 1 1 0
Benzinger rf,1b 4 1 1 0
Gedman c 3 1 1 0
Owen ss 1 0 0 0
  Reed pr,ss 1 0 0 1
Boyd p 0 0 0 0
  Stanley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 9 3
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Moses lf 5 0 1 0
Bush rf 5 1 1 1
Puckett cf 5 0 3 0
Hrbek dh 3 0 1 0
Gaetti 3b,ss 4 1 1 1
Larkin 1b 4 1 2 0
Harper c,3b 3 0 2 1
Gagne ss 3 0 0 0
  Torve ph 1 0 0 0
  Newman 2b 0 0 0 0
Lombardozzi 2b 2 0 0 0
  Laudner ph,c 1 0 0 0
Lea p 0 0 0 0
  Atherton p 0 0 0 0
  Portugal p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 11 3
Boston 010 102 000491
Minnesota 011 001 0003110
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Boyd  W (7-7) 6.0 9 3 2 1 6
  Stanley  SV (1) 3.0 2 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
11
3
2
2
8
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Lea  L (5-4) 6.0 7 4 4 2 6
  Atherton   2.2 2 0 0 3 0
  Portugal   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
5
6

  E–Burks (5).  2B–Boston Burks (19,off Lea); Evans 2 (20,off Lea,off Atherton); Barrett (18,off Atherton), Minnesota Harper (4,off Boyd); Hrbek (16,off Boyd); Larkin (19,off Boyd).  3B–Minnesota Puckett (3,off Boyd).  HR–Boston Greenwell (15,2nd inning off Lea 0 on, 0 out), Minnesota Gaetti (19,2nd inning off Boyd 0 on, 0 out); Bush (9,3rd inning off Boyd 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Gedman (3,off Lea); Reed (2,off Lea); Harper (1,off Stanley).  HBP–Owen (2,by Lea).  IBB–Greenwell 2 (10,by Atherton 2).  SB–Puckett (3,2nd base off Boyd/Gedman).  CS–Moses (2,2nd base by Boyd/Gedman).  WP–Lea (6).  HBP–Lea (4,Owen).  IBB–Atherton 2 (3,Greenwell 2).  U-HP–John Hirschbeck, 1B–Dale Ford, 2B–Rick Reed, 3B–Dale Scott.  T–2:52.  A–32,724.
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