Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
May 2, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 2, 1989 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 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Boggs 3b 4 1 2 1
Romero 2b,ss 4 1 0 0
Burks cf 3 1 1 3
Greenwell lf 4 0 0 0
Rice dh 4 0 1 0
Evans rf 4 0 1 0
Esasky 1b 4 0 0 0
Gedman c 3 0 1 0
  Barrett pr,2b 1 1 1 0
Reed ss 2 0 0 0
  Horn ph 0 0 0 0
  Cerone c 1 0 0 0
Dopson p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 7 4
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 4 0 1 1
Backman 2b 3 0 0 0
Puckett cf 4 0 2 0
Larkin 1b 4 0 0 0
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 0
Dwyer dh 4 0 1 1
Harper c 4 0 0 0
Bush rf 2 0 1 0
  Moses rf 0 0 0 0
Gagne ss 3 1 1 0
Toliver p 0 0 0 0
  Gonzalez p 0 0 0 0
  Reardon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
Boston 000 000 040470
Minnesota 000 110 000270
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Dopson  W (3-1) 8.0 7 2 2 2 4
  Smith  SV (3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
2
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Toliver   7.0 4 1 1 1 2
  Gonzalez  L (2-1) 0.0 1 2 2 1 0
  Reardon   2.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
2
2

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2.  2B–Minnesota Gagne (5,off Dopson); Gladden (4,off Dopson).  3B–Minnesota Gaetti (1,off Dopson).  HR–Boston Burks (5,8th inning off Reardon 2 on, 1 out).  SB–Burks (5,2nd base off Toliver/Harper).  BK–Dopson (3).  U-HP–Mike Reilly, 1B–Rich Garcia, 2B–Ted Hendry, 3B–Rocky Roe.  T–2:24.  A–17,765.
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