Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
May 18, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1997 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota Twins 7

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Garciaparra ss 5 2 0 0
Bragg cf 4 1 3 1
Cordero lf 4 1 0 0
Vaughn 1b 4 1 2 0
Stanley dh 3 0 1 2
Naehring 3b 4 0 1 1
Haselman c 3 0 0 0
  Hatteberg ph,c 1 0 0 0
Pemberton rf 3 0 0 0
  Jefferson ph 1 0 0 0
Frye 2b 4 0 1 0
Sele p 0 0 0 0
  Wasdin p 0 0 0 0
  Lacy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 8 4
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch 2b 5 1 2 0
Lawton lf 3 1 1 0
Molitor dh 5 0 1 1
Myers c 5 1 1 1
Stahoviak 1b 3 2 2 1
Jackson cf 4 1 1 1
Becker rf 3 1 1 0
Meares ss 4 0 2 2
Walker 3b 3 0 0 1
  Hocking 3b 0 0 0 0
Robertson p 0 0 0 0
  Trombley p 0 0 0 0
  Swindell p 0 0 0 0
  Naulty p 0 0 0 0
  Guardado p 0 0 0 0
  Aguilera p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 7 11 7
Boston 202 000 100582
Minnesota 502 000 00x7113
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sele  L (4-3) 2.2 9 7 6 1 0
  Wasdin   2.1 1 0 0 2 0
  Lacy   3.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
11
7
6
4
1
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Robertson  W (4-2) 6.2 6 5 2 1 4
  Trombley   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Swindell   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Naulty   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Guardado   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Aguilera  SV (7) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
5
2
1
5

  E–Garciaparra (3), Frye (2), Knoblauch (5), Meares (6), Walker (3).  DP–Minnesota 1.  2B–Boston Stanley (4,off Robertson); Naehring (9,off Robertson); Bragg (11,off Robertson); Vaughn (8,off Swindell), Minnesota Lawton (14,off Sele); Meares 2 (10,off Sele,off Lacy); Stahoviak (1,off Wasdin).  3B–Minnesota Myers (1,off Sele).  HR–Minnesota Stahoviak (1,3rd inning off Sele 0 on, 0 out).  SF–Walker (2,off Sele).  SB–Garciaparra (9,3rd base off Robertson/Myers); Bragg (2,2nd base off Robertson/Myers); Knoblauch (19,2nd base off Wasdin/Haselman).  WP–Sele (1).  U-HP–Derryl Cousins, 1B–Tim Welke, 2B–Ken Kaiser, 3B–Joe Brinkman.  T–2:40.  A–13,879.
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