Baltimore Orioles vs Minnesota Twins
April 29, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 29, 1997 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baltimore Orioles 6, Minnesota Twins 4

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Anderson dh 5 2 2 2
Alomar 2b 5 0 3 1
Incaviglia rf 4 1 2 1
Palmeiro 1b 5 0 2 1
Ripken, Jr. 3b 4 0 0 0
Hammonds cf 2 0 0 0
  Tarasco cf 3 1 1 0
Surhoff lf 3 1 1 1
Hoiles c 2 0 0 0
Bordick ss 4 1 1 0
Coppinger p 0 0 0 0
  Rhodes p 0 0 0 0
  Boskie p 0 0 0 0
  Orosco p 0 0 0 0
  Mathews p 0 0 0 0
  Myers p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 12 6
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch 2b 3 0 1 0
Becker cf 3 1 1 0
Lawton lf 4 1 1 1
Steinbach c 3 0 0 0
Myers dh 2 0 0 1
  Kelly ph,dh 2 0 0 0
Colbrunn 1b 4 0 1 0
Walker 3b 1 0 0 0
  Hocking ph,3b 1 0 0 1
  Coomer ph 1 0 0 0
Meares ss 4 1 1 0
Brede rf 4 1 2 1
Robertson p 0 0 0 0
  Swindell p 0 0 0 0
  Ritchie p 0 0 0 0
  Guardado p 0 0 0 0
  Aguilera p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 7 4
Baltimore 101 004 0006120
Minnesota 000 040 000470
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Coppinger   4.1 3 3 3 3 5
  Rhodes   0.1 1 1 1 3 0
  Boskie  W (1-1) 0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Orosco   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
  Mathews   2.0 1 0 0 0 3
  Myers  SV (10) 1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
7
11
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Robertson   5.1 8 4 4 2 2
  Swindell  L (1-1) 2.0 3 2 2 0 1
  Ritchie   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Guardado   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Aguilera   1.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
12
6
6
4
6

  E–None.  DP–Minnesota 1.  2B–Baltimore Alomar (1,off Aguilera), Minnesota Meares (5,off Coppinger); Lawton (10,off Rhodes).  3B–Baltimore Anderson (1,off Swindell).  HR–Baltimore Incaviglia (1,1st inning off Robertson 0 on, 2 out).  HBP–Hoiles (3,by Robertson); Walker (1,by Coppinger); Knoblauch (2,by Boskie).  SH–Becker (2,off Orosco).  SF–Myers (1,off Rhodes).  IBB–Steinbach (1,by Rhodes); Colbrunn (1,by Rhodes).  SB–Tarasco (2,2nd base off Robertson/Steinbach); Knoblauch 3 (11,2nd base off Coppinger/Hoiles 2,3rd base off Coppinger/Hoiles); Walker (2,2nd base off Coppinger/Hoiles); Lawton (2,2nd base off Coppinger/Hoiles).  WP–Robertson (2).  HBP–Coppinger (1,Walker); Boskie (2,Knoblauch); Robertson (2,Hoiles).  IBB–Rhodes 2 (3,Steinbach,Colbrunn).  U-HP–Terry Craft, 1B–Chuck Meriwether, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Larry McCoy.  T–3:47.  A–11,368.
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