Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
July 2, 2008 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 2, 2008 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."

"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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Detroit Tigers 0, Minnesota Twins 7

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Granderson cf 3 0 1 0
Polanco 2b 4 0 2 0
  Hollimon pr,2b 0 0 0 0
Guillen 3b 3 0 0 0
  Raburn 3b 1 0 1 0
Thames 1b 4 0 0 0
Joyce rf 4 0 0 0
Sheffield dh 4 0 0 0
Thomas lf 4 0 1 0
Renteria ss 3 0 0 0
Sardinha c 3 0 0 0
Bonine p 0 0 0 0
  Fossum p 0 0 0 0
  Rodney p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 0 5 0
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gomez cf 5 1 3 0
Casilla 2b 4 0 1 1
Mauer c 4 1 2 2
Morneau 1b 4 1 0 0
Kubel dh 4 1 1 1
Young lf 4 1 3 1
Buscher 3b 4 0 1 1
Punto ss 3 0 2 1
Span rf 4 2 1 0
Blackburn p 0 0 0 0
  Crain p 0 0 0 0
  Bonser p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 7 14 7
Detroit 000 000 000051
Minnesota 005 011 00x7141
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bonine  L(2-1) 2.2 7 5 2 2 1
  Fossum   4.1 6 2 2 0 0
  Rodney   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
1
0
0
0
1
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Blackburn  W(7-4) 7.0 3 0 0 1 4
  Crain   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Bonser   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
0
0
0
0
1

  E–Guillen (11), Buscher (2).  DP–Detroit 1. Renteria-Thames.  2B–Detroit Raburn (7,off Crain), Minnesota Gomez (14,off Bonine); Young 2 (16,off Fossum 2); Span (3,off Fossum).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Casilla (7,off Bonine).  Team–8.  U-HP–Tim Welke, 1B–Chuck Meriwether, 2B–James Hoye, 3B–Chris Guccione.  T–2:30.  A–30,102.
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