Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
August 24, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 24, 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."

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Detroit Tigers 2, Minnesota Twins 8

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 4 1 3 0
Sheridan lf 4 0 0 0
Trammell ss 3 0 1 0
  Walewander ss 1 0 0 0
Bergman 1b 4 0 1 1
Nokes c 2 1 2 1
Evans dh 3 0 0 0
Lemon rf 2 0 0 0
  Pettis cf 1 0 0 0
Murphy cf,rf 4 0 0 0
Salazar 3b 4 0 0 0
Tanana p 0 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 4 2 2 3
Herr 2b 4 0 0 0
Puckett cf 4 1 4 2
  Moses pr,cf 0 0 0 0
Larkin dh 4 0 0 0
Harper c 4 0 0 0
Hrbek 1b 4 1 1 0
Christensen rf 4 1 1 1
Gagne ss 3 1 1 0
  Bush ph 1 0 0 0
  Newman ss 0 0 0 0
Lombardozzi 3b 4 2 2 2
Toliver p 0 0 0 0
  Berenguer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 8 11 8
Detroit 000 001 010271
Minnesota 060 200 00x8110
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Tanana  L (14-8) 1.2 7 6 6 0 0
  King   6.1 4 2 2 0 4
Totals
8.0
11
8
8
0
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Toliver  W (5-3) 7.2 7 2 2 4 3
  Berenguer   1.1 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
4
5

  E–Trammell (11).  DP–Minnesota 2.  2B–Detroit Whitaker (15,off Toliver), Minnesota Hrbek (23,off Tanana); Christensen (4,off Tanana); Lombardozzi (14,off King); Puckett (32,off King).  3B–Minnesota Lombardozzi (2,off Tanana).  HR–Detroit Nokes (14,6th inning off Toliver 0 on, 2 out), Minnesota Gladden (9,2nd inning off Tanana 1 on, 1 out); Puckett (19,2nd inning off Tanana 0 on, 2 out).  WP–Toliver (8).  U-HP–Terry Cooney, 1B–Al Clark, 2B–Tim Welke, 3B–Joe Brinkman.  T–2:15.  A–46,054.
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