Houston Astros vs Minnesota Twins
June 12, 2001 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 12, 2001 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Houston Astros 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)
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Houston Astros 0, Minnesota Twins 7

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Biggio 2b 4 0 1 0
Vizcaino ss 4 0 1 0
Bagwell 1b 4 0 2 0
Berkman lf 4 0 0 0
Alou rf 3 0 0 0
Hidalgo cf 3 0 0 0
Ward dh 3 0 0 0
Castilla 3b 3 0 0 0
Ausmus c 3 0 0 0
Elarton p 0 0 0 0
  Cruz p 0 0 0 0
  Slusarski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 4 0
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
McCracken dh 3 0 0 0
Guzman ss 3 1 2 2
Lawton rf 4 1 1 1
Koskie 3b 2 1 0 0
  Hocking 3b 0 0 0 0
Mientkiewicz 1b 3 1 1 3
Hunter cf 4 1 1 1
Jones lf 3 0 0 0
Rivas 2b 4 1 1 0
Pierzynski c 4 1 2 0
Radke p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 7 8 7
Houston 000 000 000040
Minnesota 012 010 30x780
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Elarton  L (4-6) 6.1 7 5 5 4 8
  Cruz   0.2 1 2 2 0 0
  Slusarski   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
7
7
4
8
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Radke  W (8-2) 9.0 4 0 0 0 7
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
0
7

  E–None.  DP–Houston 1.  2B–Houston Bagwell (12,off Radke).  HR–Minnesota Hunter (10,2nd inning off Elarton 0 on, 2 out); Guzman (6,5th inning off Elarton 0 on, 0 out); Mientkiewicz (10,7th inning off Cruz 2 on, 2 out).  SH–McCracken (1,off Elarton).  HBP–Koskie (4,by Cruz).  HBP–Cruz (5,Koskie).  U-HP–Gary Cederstrom, 1B–Dan Iassogna, 2B–Marvin Hudson, 3B–Tim Welke.  T–2:22.  A–12,280.
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