Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
August 31, 1990 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1990 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Minnesota Twins 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Detroit Tigers 12, Minnesota Twins 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Phillips lf,cf 4 2 1 0
Whitaker 2b 4 4 2 3
Trammell ss 5 1 2 0
Fielder 1b 4 2 1 2
Moseby dh 5 2 2 2
Sheets rf 3 0 2 3
  Lemon ph,rf 3 0 1 0
Shelby cf 4 0 1 1
  Ward ph,lf 1 0 1 0
Salas c 4 0 0 0
Fryman 3b 4 1 1 0
Robinson p 0 0 0 0
  Parker p 0 0 0 0
  Gibson p 0 0 0 0
  Nunez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 12 14 11
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Liriano 2b 5 1 1 0
Mack cf 4 1 1 0
Larkin rf 5 0 1 0
Hrbek 1b 4 2 1 3
Harper c 4 1 2 0
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 3
Sorrento dh 4 0 0 0
Gladden lf 4 0 3 0
Gagne ss 4 0 1 0
Abbott p 0 0 0 0
  Smith p 0 0 0 0
  Wayne p 0 0 0 0
  Drummond p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 11 6
Detroit 342 101 00112140
Minnesota 015 000 0006111
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Robinson   2.2 5 6 6 1 0
  Parker  W (3-1) 3.2 4 0 0 0 1
  Gibson   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Nunez   2.1 2 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
6
6
1
3
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Abbott  L (0-2) 1.1 4 6 6 3 2
  Smith   2.2 5 4 4 3 2
  Wayne   2.2 2 1 1 1 1
  Drummond   2.1 3 1 1 3 2
Totals
9.0
14
12
12
10
7

  E–Harper (11).  2B–Detroit Trammell (34,off Abbott); Moseby (12,off Smith); Shelby (8,off Smith); Fryman (6,off Wayne), Minnesota Harper (36,off Robinson); Gladden (23,off Parker).  3B–Detroit Fielder (1,off Abbott), Minnesota Harper (2,off Robinson); Gladden (4,off Parker).  HR–Detroit Whitaker (16,3rd inning off Smith 1 on, 2 out); Moseby (13,6th inning off Wayne 0 on, 1 out), Minnesota Hrbek (21,3rd inning off Robinson 2 on, 2 out); Gaetti (14,3rd inning off Robinson 1 on, 2 out).  IBB–Salas (2,by Smith).  HBP–Mack (4,by Robinson).  SB–Fryman (2,2nd base off Abbott/Harper).  WP–Smith 2 (10).  HBP–Robinson (6,Mack).  IBB–Smith (4,Salas).  U-HP–Don Denkinger, 1B–John Shulock, 2B–Gary Cederstrom, 3B–Tim McClelland.  T–3:24.  A–21,071.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook