Seattle Mariners vs Minnesota Twins
May 26, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 26, 1997 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Seattle Mariners defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Seattle Mariners 13, Minnesota Twins 8

Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Cora 2b 4 2 1 2
Wilson c 4 2 2 1
Griffey, Jr. cf 4 1 0 0
Martinez dh 5 2 3 6
Rodriguez ss 5 0 2 0
Buhner rf 5 2 2 2
Blowers 1b 3 1 1 0
Davis 3b 5 2 2 1
Amaral lf 5 1 1 0
Sanders p 0 0 0 0
  McCarthy p 0 0 0 0
  Wells p 0 0 0 0
  Ayala p 0 0 0 0
  Charlton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 13 14 12
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch 2b 4 1 1 2
Becker lf 3 2 3 1
Molitor dh 4 0 2 2
Myers c 4 1 2 2
Coomer 3b 3 0 1 0
  Hocking ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Colbrunn 1b 4 1 2 0
  Stahoviak ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Lawton rf 2 1 0 0
  Kelly ph 1 0 0 0
Jackson cf 5 0 0 0
Meares ss 5 2 2 1
Aldred p 0 0 0 0
  Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0
  Ritchie p 0 0 0 0
  Swindell p 0 0 0 0
  Trombley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 8 13 8
Seattle 400 214 00213140
Minnesota 020 301 2008132
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Sanders  W (1-5) 5.1 8 5 5 5 4
  McCarthy   0.0 2 1 1 1 0
  Wells   2.0 3 2 2 1 2
  Ayala   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Charlton   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
13
8
8
7
7
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Aldred  L (2-7) 0.1 3 4 4 3 0
  Rodriguez   3.2 3 2 1 0 0
  Ritchie   1.1 5 5 5 2 1
  Swindell   2.2 1 0 0 0 2
  Trombley   1.0 2 2 2 0 0
Totals
9.0
14
13
12
5
3

  E–Colbrunn (6), Meares (7).  DP–Seattle 1, Minnesota 2.  2B–Seattle R Davis (13,off Rodriguez), Minnesota Colbrunn (13,off Sanders); Meares (12,off Sanders); Becker (4,off McCarthy); Molitor (7,off McCarthy).  HR–Seattle Cora (5,1st inning off Aldred 0 on, 0 out); E Martinez 2 (7,1st inning off Aldred 2 on, 0 out,6th inning off Ritchie 2 on, 1 out); Buhner 2 (11,5th inning off Ritchie 0 on, 2 out,9th inning off Trombley 0 on, 1 out); R Davis (6,9th inning off Trombley 0 o, Minnesota Myers (2,4th inning off Sanders 1 on, 2 out).  IBB–Blowers (1,by Aldred).  SF–Molitor (4,off Sanders).  SB–Knoblauch 2 (25,2nd base off Sanders/Wilson,3rd base off Sanders/Wilson).  CS–Becker (3,2nd base by Wells/Wilson).  WP–Sanders (4), Aldred (7).  IBB–Aldred (2,Blowers).  U-HP–Mike Reilly, 1B–Larry Young, 2B–Rich Garcia, 3B–Dale Ford.  T–3:32.  A–14,134.
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