Kansas City Royals vs Minnesota Twins
May 17, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1989 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Kansas City Royals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Kansas City Royals 3, Minnesota Twins 4

Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 5 0 1 0
  Wellman cf,3b 0 0 0 0
Seitzer 3b,lf 4 2 2 1
de los Santos 1b 5 0 1 0
Tartabull rf 5 1 2 2
Tabler dh 4 0 0 0
Jackson lf,cf 4 0 0 0
Macfarlane c 4 0 0 0
White 2b 4 0 1 0
Stillwell ss 3 0 1 0
Leibrandt p 0 0 0 0
  Farr p 0 0 0 0
  Montgomery p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 3 8 3
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gladden lf 3 0 0 0
Gagne ss 4 1 1 0
  Bush ph 1 0 0 0
Puckett cf 5 1 2 1
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 2
Larkin 1b 4 0 1 1
Castillo rf 2 0 0 0
  Moses rf 1 0 0 0
Harper c 4 0 0 0
Laudner dh 3 0 0 0
  Dwyer ph,dh 1 1 1 0
Newman 2b 3 0 2 0
Anderson p 0 0 0 0
  Berenguer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 8 4
Kansas City 100 010 100 0380
Minnesota 000 100 002 1480
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Leibrandt   8.1 4 2 2 2 2
  Farr  L (0-2) 1.0 3 2 2 1 1
  Montgomery   0.1 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.2
8
4
4
3
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Anderson   9.0 7 3 3 2 5
  Berenguer  W (2-1) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
8
3
3
2
6

  E–None.  DP–Kansas City 1.  2B–Minnesota Larkin (11,off Leibrandt).  HR–Kansas City Tartabull (4,5th inning off Anderson 0 on, 2 out); Seitzer (3,7th inning off Anderson 0 on, 2 out), Minnesota Gaetti (6,9th inning off Farr 1 on, 1 out).  HBP–Gladden (2,by Leibrandt).  IBB–Gladden (2,by Farr).  SB–White (2,2nd base off Anderson/Harper).  CS–Gladden (3,2nd base by Leibrandt/Macfarlane); Newman (2,2nd base by Leibrandt/Macfarlane).  HBP–Leibrandt (1,Gladden).  IBB–Farr (1,Gladden).  U-HP–Larry McCoy, 1B–Tim Tschida, 2B–Steve Palermo, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–2:50.  A–20,922.
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