Anaheim Angels vs Minnesota Twins
May 31, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 1998 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Anaheim Angels defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Anaheim Angels 6, Minnesota Twins 5

Anaheim Angels ab   r   h rbi
Erstad 1b 5 1 1 1
Hollins dh 5 1 2 0
Edmonds cf 3 1 1 2
Bolick 3b 2 0 0 0
  Shipley ph,3b 1 0 1 0
Anderson lf 3 1 2 0
Walbeck c 4 1 1 2
Mashore rf 4 0 0 0
Baughman 2b 4 1 2 0
DiSarcina ss 3 0 0 1
McDowell p 0 0 0 0
  Dickson p 0 0 0 0
  Percival p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 10 6
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Nixon cf 4 1 2 0
Walker 2b 5 1 0 1
Molitor dh 4 0 1 1
Merced 1b 5 1 2 1
Coomer 3b 4 1 2 2
Lawton rf 4 0 0 0
Cordova lf 3 0 1 0
Meares ss 4 0 2 0
Valentin c 4 1 2 0
Morgan p 0 0 0 0
  Trombley p 0 0 0 0
  Swindell p 0 0 0 0
  Aguilera p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 5 12 5
Anaheim 000 032 0016100
Minnesota 102 200 0005121
  Anaheim Angels IP H R ER BB SO
McDowell   3.2 10 5 5 1 3
  Dickson  W (4-4) 4.1 2 0 0 0 3
  Percival  SV (14) 1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
12
5
5
2
6
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Morgan   5.0 6 3 3 2 0
  Trombley   1.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Swindell  L (0-2) 2.1 2 1 1 0 2
  Aguilera   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
6
6
2
2

  E–Meares (9).  DP–Anaheim 1, Minnesota 3.  PB–Valentin (5).  2B–Anaheim Shipley (1,off Swindell), Minnesota Merced (5,off McDowell).  3B–Anaheim Baughman (1,off Swindell), Minnesota Nixon (1,off McDowell).  HR–Anaheim Erstad (12,5th inning off Morgan 0 on, 2 out); Edmonds (11,5th inning off Morgan 1 on, 2 out); Walbeck (3,6th inning off Trombley 1 on, 0 out), Minnesota Coomer (9,3rd inning off McDowell 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Anderson (1,off Swindell).  SF–Disarcina (2,off Swindell); Molitor (4,off McDowell).  SB–Baughman (2,2nd base off Morgan/Valentin); Hollins (7,2nd base off Morgan/Valentin).  U-HP–Mark Johnson, 1B–Chuck Meriwether, 2B–Larry McCoy, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:49.  A–11,285.
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