Toronto Blue Jays vs Minnesota Twins
July 26, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 26, 1988 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Toronto Blue Jays 3, Minnesota Twins 6

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Fernandez ss 4 1 0 0
Mulliniks dh 4 0 2 1
Bell lf 2 0 0 0
  Leach lf 1 0 1 0
  Campusano pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Gruber 3b 4 0 1 0
Whitt c 4 1 2 0
McGriff 1b 4 0 1 0
Moseby cf 3 1 1 1
Barfield rf 3 0 0 0
  Liriano ph 1 0 0 0
Lee 2b 3 0 0 0
Clancy p 0 0 0 0
  Stottlemyre p 0 0 0 0
  Ward p 0 0 0 0
  Wills p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 8 2
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 5 1 1 1
Bush rf 3 1 1 1
  Davidson rf 0 0 0 0
Puckett cf 5 1 4 0
Hrbek 1b 3 1 0 1
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 1
Larkin dh 2 0 1 0
Laudner c 3 0 0 1
Gagne ss 2 0 0 0
  Bullock ph 0 0 0 1
  Newman ss 1 0 0 0
Lombardozzi 2b 3 1 2 0
Toliver p 0 0 0 0
  Portugal p 0 0 0 0
  Reardon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 10 6
Toronto 002 001 000381
Minnesota 000 003 12x6101
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Clancy   5.1 6 3 3 2 2
  Stottlemyre   0.0 0 0 0 3 0
  Ward  L (6-1) 2.1 4 3 3 2 0
  Wills   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
6
6
7
2
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Toliver   6.0 6 3 1 3 4
  Portugal  W (1-1) 1.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Reardon  SV (26) 2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
3
1
3
6

  E–Bell (13), Gagne (10).  DP–Minnesota 1.  2B–Toronto Mulliniks (11,off Toliver); Whitt (7,off Toliver); Leach (11,off Portugal), Minnesota Bush (16,off Clancy); Puckett (26,off Ward).  3B–Minnesota Gladden (4,off Ward).  SH–Lee (2,off Toliver).  SF–Hrbek (3,off Ward); Bush (4,off Ward).  IBB–Larkin (7,by Ward).  SB–Gruber (16,2nd base off Reardon/Laudner).  CS–Lombardozzi (3,2nd base by Clancy/Whitt).  WP–Toliver (3).  IBB–Ward (2,Larkin).  U-HP–Tim Tschida, 1B–Ted Hendry, 2B–Larry Young, 3B–Dale Ford.  T–2:57.  A–42,185.
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