Toronto Blue Jays vs Minnesota Twins
August 17, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 17, 1996 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Toronto Blue Jays 1, Minnesota Twins 11

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Nixon cf 4 0 2 0
Brumfield rf,lf 3 0 1 0
Samuel dh 2 1 0 0
  Delgado ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Carter 1b 3 0 0 0
Sprague 3b 4 0 0 0
O'Brien c 2 0 0 0
  Mosquera c 1 0 0 0
Perez R. lf 1 0 1 0
  Green ph,rf 1 0 0 1
Gonzalez ss 4 0 0 0
Perez T. 2b 4 0 0 0
Hanson p 0 0 0 0
  Brow p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 4 1
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch 2b 1 1 0 0
  Reboulet pr,2b 0 0 0 0
Becker cf 4 1 1 1
Molitor 1b 5 1 2 2
  Coomer 1b 0 0 0 0
Stahoviak dh 3 1 2 0
  Hale ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Cordova lf 4 2 3 2
Hollins 3b 4 2 2 2
Lawton rf 5 1 0 1
Walbeck c 4 1 2 1
Meares ss 5 1 1 0
Robertson p 0 0 0 0
  Stevens p 0 0 0 0
  Hansell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 11 13 9
Toronto 000 001 000142
Minnesota 050 022 11x11130
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Hanson  L (10-15) 5.0 7 7 3 6 5
  Brow   3.0 6 4 4 3 1
Totals
8.0
13
11
7
9
6
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Robertson  W (6-11) 5.2 3 1 1 4 5
  Stevens   2.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Hansell   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
5
7

  E–Carter (9), R Perez (2).  DP–Toronto 1, Minnesota 1.  2B–Minnesota Cordova (37,off Brow); Walbeck (8,off Brow).  HR–Minnesota Hollins (13,5th inning off Hanson 1 on, 0 out).  HBP–Brumfield (4,by Robertson).  SB–Brumfield (6,2nd base off Robertson/Walbeck).  WP–Hanson (9).  HBP–Robertson (7,Brumfield).  U-HP–Al Clark, 1B–Fieldin Culbreth, 2B–Dan Morrison, 3B–Larry Barnett.  T–2:57.  A–20,354.
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