Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
August 26, 1997 Box Score

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

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Detroit Tigers 2, Minnesota Twins 8

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hunter cf 3 0 0 0
Higginson lf 4 1 2 1
Fryman 3b 4 0 1 1
Clark 1b 4 0 1 0
Easley 2b 4 0 0 0
Nieves rf 4 0 1 0
Nevin dh 3 0 0 0
  Hamelin ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Walbeck c 4 0 0 0
Cruz ss 3 1 2 0
Thompson p 0 0 0 0
  Gaillard p 0 0 0 0
  Myers p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 7 2
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Knoblauch 2b 3 2 1 0
  Jackson ph,cf 1 0 0 0
Hocking cf,2b 4 1 1 0
Molitor 1b 3 1 1 1
Coomer 3b 4 2 3 2
Steinbach dh 3 0 0 0
  Stahoviak ph,dh 1 1 1 1
Cordova lf 3 1 0 0
Miller c 3 0 2 2
Lawton rf 2 0 0 0
Meares ss 4 0 2 2
Robertson p 0 0 0 0
  Guardado p 0 0 0 0
  Trombley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 8 11 8
Detroit 000 000 020270
Minnesota 200 000 15x8110
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Thompson  L (11-10) 7.0 8 3 3 1 6
  Gaillard   0.2 2 5 5 3 0
  Myers   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
11
8
8
4
6
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Robertson  W (8-11) 7.2 4 1 1 1 9
  Guardado   0.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Trombley  SV (1) 1.1 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
1
9

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 2.  2B–Detroit Higginson (24,off Robertson); Nieves (18,off Trombley), Minnesota Stahoviak (14,off Gaillard); Meares (22,off Myers).  3B–Detroit Higginson (5,off Guardado).  SF–D Miller (1,off Gaillard).  HBP–Lawton (7,by Myers).  IBB–Molitor (6,by Gaillard); Cordova (2,by Gaillard).  SB–Knoblauch 2 (51,2nd base off Thompson/Walbeck,2nd base off Gaillard/Walbeck).  WP–Thompson (2), Robertson 2 (10).  HBP–Myers (2,Lawton).  IBB–Gaillard 2 (2,Molitor,Cordova).  U-HP–Ken Kaiser, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Derryl Cousins, 3B–Tim Welke.  T–2:32.  A–10,562.
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