Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
April 3, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 3, 1997 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 6, Minnesota Twins 10

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hunter cf 5 0 0 0
Reed 2b 4 0 1 0
Fryman 3b 4 1 1 0
Clark 1b 4 2 3 2
Trammell rf 4 1 2 0
Nieves dh 4 2 2 1
Johnson c 4 0 2 2
Higginson lf 4 0 2 0
Cruz ss 3 0 1 0
  Pride ph 0 0 0 0
  Easley ph 1 0 0 0
Blair p 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
  Cummings p 0 0 0 0
  Sager p 0 0 0 0
  Myers p 0 0 0 0
  Lira p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 14 5
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch 2b 3 1 0 0
Becker cf 3 1 1 0
Molitor dh 5 1 2 4
Myers c 5 2 2 0
Cordova lf 3 1 0 0
Lawton rf 4 2 2 3
Colbrunn 1b 5 1 1 0
Walker 3b 3 1 1 0
  Hocking ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Meares ss 3 0 1 2
Aldred p 0 0 0 0
  Ritchie p 0 0 0 0
  Trombley p 0 0 0 0
  Guardado p 0 0 0 0
  Naulty p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 10 10 9
Detroit 032 100 0006142
Minnesota 072 001 00x10101
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Blair  L (0-1) 1.2 4 7 7 3 0
  Hernandez   1.0 2 2 2 2 2
  Cummings   3.0 4 1 0 1 0
  Sager   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Myers   1.0 0 0 0 2 2
  Lira   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
10
10
9
8
6
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Aldred   3.0 7 5 5 0 1
  Ritchie  W (1-0) 3.0 3 1 1 0 3
  Trombley   2.1 4 0 0 0 1
  Guardado   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Naulty  SV (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
14
6
6
0
6

  E–Higginson (1), Lira (1), Knoblauch (1).  DP–Minnesota 4.  PB–Myers (1).  2B–Detroit Johnson (1,off Ritchie), Minnesota Walker (1,off Blair); Meares (1,off Hernandez).  HR–Detroit Clark (1,3rd inning off Aldred 1 on, 2 out), Minnesota Lawton (1,2nd inning off Blair 2 on, 0 out); Molitor (1,2nd inning off Blair 3 on, 2 out).  HBP–Hocking (1,by Myers).  IBB–Knoblauch (1,by Hernandez).  SB–Trammell (1,2nd base off Ritchie/Myers).  HBP–Myers (1,Hocking).  IBB–Hernandez (1,Knoblauch).  U-HP–Terry Craft, 1B–Chuck Meriwether, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–3:18.  A–11,533.
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