Toronto Blue Jays vs Minnesota Twins
May 14, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 14, 1996 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Toronto Blue Jays 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

Toronto Blue Jays 4, Minnesota Twins 2

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Nixon cf 5 0 3 1
Cedeno 2b 5 0 0 0
Delgado 1b 4 1 0 0
Carter dh 3 0 0 0
Sprague 3b 3 0 0 0
Samuel lf 3 2 2 1
Perez rf 3 1 1 1
O'Brien c 4 0 1 1
Gonzalez ss 4 0 0 0
Hanson p 0 0 0 0
  Crabtree p 0 0 0 0
  Timlin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 7 4
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch dh 4 0 0 0
Becker rf 4 0 0 0
Molitor 1b 4 0 3 0
Cordova lf 4 1 2 1
Myers c 4 0 1 0
Kelly cf 3 0 0 0
  Hale ph 1 0 1 1
  Hocking pr 0 0 0 0
Hollins 3b 4 0 0 0
Meares ss 3 0 0 0
  Stahoviak ph 1 0 0 0
Reboulet 2b 3 1 2 0
Robertson p 0 0 0 0
  Naulty p 0 0 0 0
  Bennett p 0 0 0 0
  Milchin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 9 2
Toronto 000 022 000470
Minnesota 000 001 001290
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Hanson  W (4-5) 7.0 6 1 1 0 5
  Crabtree   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Timlin  SV (6) 1.0 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
0
6
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Robertson  L (0-6) 5.2 5 4 4 2 4
  Naulty   2.0 1 0 0 3 5
  Bennett   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Milchin   0.2 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
5
11

  E–None.  DP–Toronto 1.  2B–Toronto Nixon (5,off Robertson), Minnesota Molitor (10,off Hanson); Hale (2,off Timlin).  3B–Toronto Samuel (2,off Robertson).  SB–Carter (3,2nd base off Naulty/Myers).  U-HP–Terry Craft, 1B–Rich Garcia, 2B–Gary Cederstrom, 3B–Mike Reilly.  T–2:50.  A–13,483.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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