New York Yankees vs Minnesota Twins
August 8, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 8, 1997 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the New York Yankees and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Yankees 1, Minnesota Twins 9

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Jeter ss 4 0 1 0
Sojo 2b,1b 4 1 2 0
Williams cf 3 0 0 0
  Whiten rf 1 0 1 0
Martinez 1b 3 0 1 0
  Kelly 2b 1 0 0 0
O'Neill rf 2 0 1 1
  Pose lf 1 0 1 0
Hayes 3b 4 0 1 0
Boggs dh 4 0 1 0
Curtis lf,cf 4 0 1 0
Posada c 3 0 1 0
Gooden p 0 0 0 0
  Mecir p 0 0 0 0
  Lloyd p 0 0 0 0
  Mendoza p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 11 1
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch 2b 4 1 3 2
Lawton lf 4 1 1 1
Molitor dh 5 1 3 1
Myers c 5 1 1 2
  Steinbach c 0 0 0 0
Kelly rf 4 1 1 2
  Jackson cf 0 0 0 0
Stahoviak 1b 3 0 0 0
Meares ss 4 1 1 0
Becker cf,rf 4 1 1 1
Hocking 3b 3 2 2 0
Hawkins p 0 0 0 0
  Trombley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 9 13 9
New York 000 001 0001110
Minnesota 601 020 00x9130
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Gooden  L (5-4) 0.2 7 6 6 1 1
  Mecir   3.1 2 1 1 1 4
  Lloyd   3.0 2 2 2 0 4
  Mendoza   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
13
9
9
2
9
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Hawkins  W (4-7) 6.1 9 1 1 2 4
  Trombley   2.2 2 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
11
1
1
2
7

  E–None.  DP–New York 1, Minnesota 3.  2B–New York Jeter (19,off Hawkins); Boggs (15,off Hawkins), Minnesota Lawton (21,off Gooden); Myers (10,off Gooden); Becker (17,off Gooden).  HR–Minnesota Kelly (5,1st inning off Gooden 1 on, 1 out); Knoblauch (8,5th inning off Lloyd 1 on, 1 out).  HBP–Lawton (6,by Gooden); Knoblauch (13,by Mecir).  BK–Hawkins (2).  HBP–Gooden (6,Lawton); Mecir (2,Knoblauch).  U-HP–John Hirschbeck, 1B–Bill Miller, 2B–Al Clark, 3B–Jim Joyce.  T–2:57.  A–24,201.
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