Chicago Cubs vs Minnesota Twins
June 9, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 9, 1998 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Chicago Cubs and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Chicago Cubs 0, Minnesota Twins 8

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Brown cf 4 0 1 0
Morandini 2b 4 0 1 0
Sosa rf 4 0 0 0
Grace 1b 3 0 1 0
Rodriguez lf 3 0 0 0
Blauser ss 3 0 0 0
Hardtke dh 2 0 1 0
Servais c 3 0 0 0
Hernandez 3b 3 0 0 0
Wood p 0 0 0 0
  Patterson p 0 0 0 0
  Foster p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 4 0
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Nixon cf 4 4 2 0
Gates 3b 4 0 1 1
Lawton rf 3 0 2 3
Cordova lf 2 0 1 3
Merced 1b 5 0 1 0
Walker dh 4 0 0 0
Meares ss 2 1 1 0
Steinbach c 4 1 2 1
Hocking 2b 3 2 0 0
Radke p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 8 10 8
Chicago 000 000 000042
Minnesota 101 400 02x8100
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Wood  L (6-3) 3.1 5 6 2 4 4
  Patterson   2.2 2 0 0 0 2
  Foster   2.0 3 2 2 2 1
Totals
8.0
10
8
4
6
7
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Radke  W (8-4) 9.0 4 0 0 1 8
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
1
8

  E–Blauser 2 (7).  DP–Minnesota 1.  2B–Minnesota Steinbach (13,off Wood); Merced (7,off Foster); Lawton (13,off Foster).  3B–Chicago Grace (2,off Radke).  SF–Lawton 2 (2,off Wood,off Patterson); Cordova 2 (3,off Wood,off Foster).  SB–Nixon 3 (10,2nd base off Wood/Servais 2,3rd base off Patterson/Servais).  CS–Gates (1,2nd base by Wood/Servais).  U-HP–Joe Brinkman, 1B–Derryl Cousins, 2B–Tim Welke, 3B–Fieldin Culbreth.  T–2:48.  A–25,806.
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