Seattle Mariners vs Minnesota Twins
September 5, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 5, 1988 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Seattle Mariners 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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Seattle Mariners 0, Minnesota Twins 2

Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Brantley cf 4 0 1 0
Reynolds 2b 4 0 1 0
Coles lf 3 0 1 0
Balboni 1b 4 0 0 0
Davis dh 3 0 0 0
Valle c 3 0 1 0
Buhner rf 3 0 0 0
Martinez 3b 3 0 1 0
Quinones ss 3 0 0 0
Hanson p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 5 0
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Moses lf 4 1 1 1
Newman 3b 4 0 1 1
Puckett cf 4 0 1 0
Hrbek 1b 3 0 2 0
Larkin dh 3 0 0 0
Bush rf 3 0 0 0
Laudner c 2 0 1 0
Gagne ss 2 1 0 0
Lombardozzi 2b 2 0 0 0
Viola p 0 0 0 0
  Reardon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 2 6 2
Seattle 000 000 000051
Minnesota 000 000 02x260
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Hanson  L (0-1) 7.1 6 2 0 1 2
  Jackson   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
6
2
0
1
2
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Viola  W (21-6) 8.2 5 0 0 1 8
  Reardon  SV (36) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
1
8

  E–Quinones (17).  DP–Seattle 2, Minnesota 1.  2B–Seattle Coles (5,off Viola), Minnesota Laudner (17,off Hanson).  SH–Gagne (11,off Hanson); Lombardozzi (5,off Hanson).  SB–Reynolds (30,2nd base off Viola/Laudner).  CS–Reynolds (26,2nd base by Viola/Laudner).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Ted Hendry.  T–2:17.  A–31,133.
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