Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
July 4, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 4, 1998 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 4, Minnesota Twins 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hunter cf 5 0 0 0
Easley 2b 5 0 1 0
Higginson rf 5 0 2 0
Clark 1b 3 1 0 0
Alvarez 3b 3 2 2 1
  Randa 3b 0 0 0 0
Gonzalez lf 4 0 1 1
Berroa dh 4 1 1 0
Oliver c 4 0 0 0
Cruz ss 4 0 2 2
Thompson p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 4 9 4
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Nixon cf 4 0 0 0
Lawton rf 5 1 2 0
Cordova dh 4 0 0 0
Coomer 1b 4 0 1 0
Ochoa lf 4 1 2 1
Walker 2b 3 0 1 0
Steinbach c 4 0 3 0
  Shave pr 0 0 0 0
Meares ss 3 0 0 0
  Merced ph 0 0 0 1
Gates 3b 4 0 0 0
Serafini p 0 0 0 0
  Trombley p 0 0 0 0
  Swindell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 9 2
Detroit 020 000 020491
Minnesota 000 001 001291
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Thompson  W (7-8) 8.0 8 2 2 1 8
  Jones  SV (14) 1.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
2
8
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Serafini  L (3-1) 6.0 6 2 2 1 2
  Trombley   2.2 3 2 2 1 1
  Swindell   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
2
3

  E–Alvarez (2), Gates (4).  2B–Detroit Cruz (8,off Serafini); Alvarez (2,off Trombley); Gonzalez (23,off Trombley), Minnesota Lawton (20,off Thompson); Steinbach (16,off Thompson).  SF–Merced (1,off Jones).  SB–Lawton (9,2nd base off Thompson/Oliver).  U-HP–Mark Johnson, 1B–Chuck Meriwether, 2B–Larry McCoy, 3B–Jim Evans.  T–2:41.  A–14,067.
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