Oakland Athletics vs Minnesota Twins
October 4, 2006 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 4, 2006 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Oakland Athletics 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

Oakland Athletics 5, Minnesota Twins 2

Oakland Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Kendall c 5 1 2 1
Kotsay cf 5 1 1 2
Bradley rf 4 0 0 0
Thomas dh 3 0 1 0
Chavez 3b 4 0 0 0
Payton lf 4 0 2 0
Swisher 1b 4 2 2 0
Scutaro ss 4 1 1 1
Ellis 2b 4 0 2 0
  Jimenez 2b 0 0 0 0
Loaiza p 0 0 0 0
  Calero p 0 0 0 0
  Duchscherer p 0 0 0 0
  Street p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 5 11 4
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Castillo 2b 4 0 1 0
Punto 3b 5 0 1 0
Mauer c 4 0 1 0
Cuddyer rf 4 1 2 1
Morneau 1b 4 1 2 1
Hunter cf 4 0 1 0
White lf 4 0 0 0
Tyner dh 3 0 0 0
Bartlett ss 4 0 1 0
Bonser p 0 0 0 0
  Neshek p 0 0 0 0
  Reyes p 0 0 0 0
  Rincon p 0 0 0 0
  Nathan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 2 9 2
Oakland 000 020 2015110
Minnesota 000 002 000290
  Oakland Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Loaiza   5.0 8 2 2 0 2
  Calero  W(1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
  Duchscherer   2.0 0 0 0 0 3
  Street  SV(2) 1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
2
7
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Bonser   6.0 7 2 2 1 3
  Neshek  L(0-1) 0.2 1 1 1 0 0
  Reyes   0.1 1 1 1 0 0
  Rincon   1.1 1 1 1 0 3
  Nathan   0.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
11
5
5
1
7

  E–None.  DP–Oakland 1. Morneau-Bartlett.  2B–Oakland Thomas (1,off Bonser); Swisher 2 (2,off Bonser,off Rincon); Scutaro (2,off Bonser); Kendall (1,off Nathan).  HR–Oakland Kotsay (1,7th inning off Reyes 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–6.  SB–Tyner (1,2nd base off Calero/Kendall).  U–Kerwin Danley, Mike Everitt, Ed Rapuano, Tim Tschida, Tony Randazzo, Randy Marsh.  T–3:02.  A–55,710.
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