Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
April 14, 2002 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 14, 2002 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Detroit Tigers 7, Minnesota Twins 13

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Torres cf 5 0 0 0
Fick rf 4 1 2 1
Higginson lf 5 0 1 0
Young 1b 4 0 2 1
  Magee ph 1 0 0 0
  Cruz 1b 0 0 0 0
Meluskey c 3 1 1 0
Halter ss 4 1 0 0
Simon dh 5 1 1 3
Paquette 3b 4 3 4 2
Macias 2b 4 0 0 0
Sparks p 0 0 0 0
  Paniagua p 0 0 0 0
  Anderson p 0 0 0 0
  Acevedo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 7 11 7
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Jones lf 5 1 1 1
Guzman ss 6 1 1 0
Mientkiewicz 1b 4 2 3 1
LeCroy dh 4 2 3 0
  Ortiz ph,dh 1 1 1 3
Hunter cf 4 1 2 3
Koskie 3b 2 1 1 1
Mohr rf 5 0 0 0
Pierzynski c 5 2 2 0
Hocking 2b 3 1 1 1
  Kielty ph 1 1 1 3
  Canizaro 2b 0 0 0 0
Mays p 0 0 0 0
  Cressend p 0 0 0 0
  Hawkins p 0 0 0 0
  Wells p 0 0 0 0
  Romero p 0 0 0 0
  Fiore p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 13 16 13
Detroit 110 004 0107113
Minnesota 014 000 08x13161
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sparks   6.0 8 5 1 1 2
  Paniagua   1.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Anderson  L (0-1) 0.0 4 5 5 1 0
  Acevedo   1.0 2 2 2 2 1
Totals
8.0
16
13
9
5
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Mays   5.0 8 6 6 2 0
  Cressend   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Hawkins   1.0 1 0 0 0 2
  Wells   0.2 1 1 1 0 0
  Romero  W (2-0) 0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Fiore   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
11
7
7
3
3

  E–Young (3), Macias 2 (3), Koskie (3).  2B–Detroit Fick (3,off Mays); Paquette 2 (3,off Mays 2), Minnesota LeCroy 2 (2,off Sparks 2).  3B–Minnesota LeCroy (1,off Sparks); Ortiz (1,off Anderson).  HR–Detroit Paquette 2 (2,2nd inning off Mays 0 on, 2 out,8th inning off Wells 0 on, 0 out); Simon (2,6th inning off Mays 2 on, 0 out), Minnesota Kielty (1,8th inning off Anderson 1 on, 0 out).  HBP–Meluskey (1,by Mays); Koskie (2,by Paniagua).  SF–Jones (1,off Acevedo).  IBB–Koskie (2,by Sparks).  HBP–Paniagua (1,Koskie); Mays (1,Meluskey).  IBB–Sparks (1,Koskie).  U-HP–Mark Carlson, 1B–John Hirschbeck, 2B–Wally Bell, 3B–C.B. Bucknor.  T–3:07.  A–17,975.
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