Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
August 6, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 6, 1997 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota Twins 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Frye 2b 4 1 1 2
Valentin 3b 4 0 0 0
Vaughn 1b 3 0 1 1
Stanley dh 3 1 1 0
Cordero lf 4 0 0 0
Mack cf 4 1 1 0
  Bragg cf 0 0 0 0
Hatteberg c 4 0 1 2
Benjamin ss 3 1 1 0
Tavarez rf 4 1 1 0
Wakefield p 0 0 0 0
  Lacy p 0 0 0 0
  Henry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 7 5
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch 2b 4 0 0 0
Kelly rf 3 0 1 1
  Lawton ph,rf 0 0 0 0
Molitor dh 4 0 0 0
Stahoviak 1b 3 0 1 0
  Colbrunn ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Cordova lf 4 0 1 0
Coomer 3b 4 0 1 0
Steinbach c 4 0 0 0
Becker cf 3 1 2 0
  Jackson ph 1 0 0 0
Meares ss 3 1 1 1
Robertson p 0 0 0 0
  Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 7 2
Boston 002 120 000570
Minnesota 000 020 000270
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wakefield  W (6-13) 7.0 7 2 2 0 7
  Lacy   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Henry  SV (5) 1.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
1
7
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Robertson  L (7-10) 5.0 7 5 5 4 4
  Rodriguez   4.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
4
6

  E–None.  PB–Hatteberg (11).  2B–Boston Frye (21,off Robertson); Benjamin (4,off Robertson); Hatteberg (13,off Robertson), Minnesota Becker (15,off Wakefield).  SF–Frye (5,off Robertson).  WP–Wakefield (4).  U-HP–Chuck Meriwether, 1B–Ted Barrett, 2B–Larry McCoy, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:31.  A–12,450.
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