Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
August 26, 2000 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 26, 2000 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."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Detroit Tigers 8, Minnesota Twins 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Easley 2b 5 1 2 2
Encarnacion cf 5 0 0 0
Higginson lf 4 2 1 0
Gonzalez dh 4 0 3 1
Palmer 1b 4 1 1 0
  Allen 1b 0 0 0 0
Magee rf 3 1 0 1
  Becker ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Cruz ss 4 1 1 3
Ausmus c 4 1 2 0
Halter 3b 4 1 1 1
Sparks p 0 0 0 0
  Nitkowski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 8 11 8
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Guzman ss 4 0 0 0
Canizaro 2b 4 0 1 1
Lawton rf 3 0 0 0
Coomer 1b 3 0 1 0
Ortiz dh 4 0 0 0
Koskie 3b 2 0 0 0
  Hocking ph 1 0 0 0
Hunter cf 3 0 0 0
Jones lf 3 1 1 0
  Maxwell ph 1 0 0 0
Pierzynski c 3 1 2 1
Milton p 0 0 0 0
  Cressend p 0 0 0 0
  Carrasco p 0 0 0 0
  Guardado p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
Detroit 002 004 1018110
Minnesota 001 100 000252
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sparks  W (5-2) 7.1 5 2 2 4 6
  Nitkowski   1.2 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
4
8
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Milton  L (12-7) 6.0 8 6 2 1 5
  Cressend   1.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Carrasco   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Guardado   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
8
4
1
7

  E–Koskie 2 (10).  DP–Detroit 1, Minnesota 1.  2B–Detroit Easley (23,off Milton), Minnesota Pierzynski (1,off Sparks).  3B–Detroit Higginson (4,off Cressend), Minnesota Pierzynski (1,off Sparks).  HR–Detroit Easley (11,3rd inning off Milton 1 on, 1 out); D Cruz (7,6th inning off Milton 2 on, 1 out); Halter (3,9th inning off Guardado 0 on, 0 out).  WP–Sparks (3).  U-HP–Brian Gorman, 1B–Mike Everitt, 2B–Kerwin Danley, 3B–Mike DiMuro.  T–2:35.  A–12,048.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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