Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
May 6, 2002 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 6, 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 1, Minnesota Twins 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Macias 3b 4 0 2 1
Fick rf 4 0 1 0
Higginson lf 4 0 1 0
Simon dh 4 0 0 0
Halter ss 2 0 0 0
Paquette 1b 4 0 0 0
Magee cf 4 0 1 0
Rivera c 3 0 0 0
Jackson 2b 3 1 2 0
Sparks p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 7 1
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Jones lf 3 0 2 3
Guzman ss 5 0 2 0
Mientkiewicz 1b 3 0 1 0
LeCroy dh 4 0 0 0
Hunter cf 4 0 2 0
Koskie 3b 3 1 0 0
Buchanan rf 3 1 2 0
  Mohr rf 0 0 0 0
Pierzynski c 4 1 1 0
Hocking 2b 4 0 1 0
Reed p 0 0 0 0
  Fiore p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Romero p 0 0 0 0
  Guardado p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 11 3
Detroit 001 000 000170
Minnesota 000 201 00x3110
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Sparks  L (2-3) 8.0 11 3 3 3 4
Totals
8.0
11
3
3
3
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Reed  W (4-1) 5.0 5 1 1 1 4
  Fiore   1.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Jackson   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Romero   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Guardado  SV (12) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
2
5

  E–None.  DP–Minnesota 1.  2B–Detroit D Jackson 2 (4,off Reed 2), Minnesota Hunter (8,off Sparks).  3B–Detroit Higginson (3,off Reed).  SF–Jones (4,off Sparks).  HBP–Buchanan (1,by Sparks).  CS–Macias (2,2nd base by Reed/Pierzynski); Jones (1,2nd base by Sparks/Rivera).  WP–Jackson (1).  HBP–Sparks (1,Buchanan).  U-HP–Ed Montague, 1B–Mike VanVleet, 2B–Jerry Layne, 3B–Hunter Wendelstedt.  T–2:25.  A–10,708.
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