Texas Rangers vs Minnesota Twins
May 20, 2008 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 2008 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Texas Rangers 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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Texas Rangers 4, Minnesota Twins 11

Texas Rangers ab   r   h rbi
Kinsler 2b 5 1 2 1
Young ss 5 0 1 0
Hamilton rf 5 0 2 1
Bradley dh 4 1 1 0
Murphy lf 4 1 1 0
Byrd cf 4 1 1 0
Shelton 1b 4 0 0 0
Saltalamacchia c 4 0 1 1
Duran 3b 4 0 2 1
Mathis p 0 0 0 0
  German p 0 0 0 0
  Rupe p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 4 11 4
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gomez cf 4 1 1 0
Casilla 2b 4 1 2 2
Mauer c 4 2 3 1
Morneau 1b 4 1 2 1
  Clark 1b 1 0 0 0
Cuddyer rf 5 1 1 1
Kubel dh 2 2 1 0
Young lf 4 2 1 2
Lamb 3b 3 0 2 2
Everett ss 3 1 0 1
Perkins p 0 0 0 0
  Bass p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 11 13 10
Texas 000 000 3014112
Minnesota 207 000 20x11131
  Texas Rangers IP H R ER BB SO
Mathis  L(1-1) 2.1 8 9 6 4 0
  German   3.2 2 0 0 1 1
  Rupe   2.0 3 2 2 0 1
Totals
8.0
3
2
2
0
1
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Perkins  W(1-1) 6.1 6 3 2 0 3
  Bass   2.2 5 1 1 0 2
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
0
2

  E–Kinsler (8), Saltalamacchia (2), Casilla (1).  DP–Texas 2. Kinsler-Young-Shelton, Young-Kinsler-Shelton.  2B–Minnesota Mauer (10,off Mathis); Cuddyer (6,off Mathis); Kubel (5,off Rupe).  3B–Minnesota Gomez (3,off Mathis); Young (4,off Rupe).  HBP–Bradley (1,by Perkins).  Team LOB–9.  SF–Mauer (2,off German); Lamb (5,off Rupe).  IBB–Kubel (1,by Mathis).  Team–6.  U-HP–Jim Joyce, 1B–Jeff Nelson, 2B–Adrian Johnson, 3B–Tim Tschida.  T–2:39.  A–19,376.
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