Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
May 11, 2008 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 11, 2008 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Boston Red Sox 8, Minnesota Twins 9

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Ellsbury lf 4 1 0 0
Pedroia 2b 4 1 1 0
Ortiz dh 4 0 2 0
Youkilis 1b 5 1 2 1
Lowell 3b 4 1 1 1
Drew rf 5 1 2 1
Crisp cf 5 2 2 3
Cash c 4 1 2 1
  Ramirez ph 1 0 0 0
Cora ss 4 0 3 0
Wakefield p 0 0 0 0
  Tavarez p 0 0 0 0
  Aardsma p 0 0 0 0
  Timlin p 0 0 0 0
  Lopez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 8 15 7
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gomez cf 5 0 1 0
Tolbert 2b 5 0 0 0
Mauer c 4 1 1 0
Morneau 1b 3 2 3 0
Cuddyer rf 3 1 1 0
Monroe dh 4 2 2 4
Young lf 3 1 0 0
Lamb 3b 3 1 1 2
Everett ss 4 1 1 2
Blackburn p 0 0 0 0
  Guerrier p 0 0 0 0
  Reyes p 0 0 0 0
  Nathan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 9 10 8
Boston 001 300 2028151
Minnesota 052 100 10x9101
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wakefield  L(3-2) 2.2 7 7 6 2 2
  Tavarez   1.1 1 1 0 2 1
  Aardsma   2.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Timlin   1.2 1 1 1 0 0
  Lopez   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
0
0
0
0
0
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Blackburn  W(3-2) 6.0 9 4 4 1 5
  Guerrier   1.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Reyes   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Nathan  SV(12) 1.0 3 2 2 0 0
Totals
9.0
3
2
2
0
0

  E–Lowell (2), Tolbert (3).  DP–Boston 1. Cora-Youkilis, Minnesota 1. Everett-Tolbert-Morneau.  PB–Cash 2 (6).  2B–Boston Cora (1,off Blackburn); Drew (5,off Nathan), Minnesota Cuddyer (5,off Wakefield).  3B–Boston Crisp (1,off Blackburn).  HR–Boston Crisp (2,7th inning off Guerrier 1 on 2 out), Minnesota Monroe 2 (4,2nd inning off Wakefield 2 on 0 out,7th inning off Timlin 0 on 0 out); Everett (1,2nd inning off Wakefield 1 on 1 out).  SF–Lowell (1,off Blackburn).  HBP–Ellsbury (3,by Blackburn); Pedroia (1,by Blackburn).  Team LOB–9.  Team–6.  SB–Crisp (6,2nd base off Nathan/Mauer); Gomez (16,2nd base off Wakefield/Cash).  U-HP–Marty Foster, 1B–Derryl Cousins, 2B–Angel Hernandez, 3B–Eric Cooper.  T–3:04.  A–26,511.
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