Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins
September 17, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 17, 1988 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Chicago White Sox 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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Chicago White Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 3

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Gallagher cf 3 1 1 0
Lyons rf 3 0 2 0
Baines dh 4 0 1 1
Fisk c 4 0 0 0
Diaz 1b 4 0 1 0
Morman lf 3 0 0 0
  Hairston ph 1 0 0 0
Martinez 3b 3 0 0 0
  Boston ph 1 0 0 0
Guillen ss 4 0 0 0
Manrique 2b 3 0 0 0
Reuss p 0 0 0 0
  McCarthy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 5 1
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 4 1 1 0
Herr 2b 2 1 0 0
Puckett cf 4 0 2 1
Gaetti dh 3 1 1 2
Larkin 1b 3 0 0 0
Harper c 3 0 0 0
Christensen rf 3 0 1 0
  Moses rf 0 0 0 0
Lombardozzi ss 3 0 0 0
  Gagne ss 0 0 0 0
Newman 3b 3 0 0 0
Anderson p 0 0 0 0
  Reardon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 5 3
Chicago 001 000 000150
Minnesota 001 002 00x352
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Reuss  L (11-9) 7.0 5 3 3 2 0
  McCarthy   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
5
3
3
2
0
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Anderson  W (14-9) 8.0 5 1 1 2 8
  Reardon  SV (40) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
2
8

  E–Herr (4), Larkin (2).  PB–Fisk (3).  2B–Chicago Diaz (3,off Anderson).  HR–Minnesota Gaetti (28,6th inning off Reuss 1 on, 1 out).  SB–Herr (8,2nd base off Reuss/Fisk).  CS–Puckett (5,2nd base by Reuss/Fisk).  U-HP–Durwood Merrill, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Terry Cooney, 3B–Tim Welke.  T–2:13.  A–46,439.
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