Minnesota Twins vs Detroit Tigers
July 13, 2008 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 13, 2008 at Comerica Park. The Detroit Tigers 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)
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Minnesota Twins 2, Detroit Tigers 4

Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Gomez cf 4 0 0 0
Casilla 2b 4 0 1 0
Mauer c 2 1 0 0
Morneau 1b 3 1 1 0
Kubel lf 3 0 0 0
Harris ss 4 0 1 1
Buscher 3b 4 0 1 0
Lamb dh 4 0 0 0
Span rf 3 0 0 0
Blackburn p 0 0 0 0
  Bass p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 4 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Granderson cf 2 1 0 0
Polanco 2b 4 0 1 0
Guillen 3b 4 0 1 0
Cabrera 1b 4 0 0 1
Joyce rf 4 1 1 1
Thames dh 3 1 0 0
  Raburn pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Thomas lf 4 1 2 2
Inge c 3 0 0 0
Santiago ss 3 0 1 0
Verlander p 0 0 0 0
  Zumaya p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 6 4
Minnesota 000 200 000242
Detroit 020 010 01x460
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Blackburn  L(7-5) 7.0 5 3 2 2 4
  Bass   1.0 1 1 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
1
1
1
1
0
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Verlander  W(7-9) 7.0 4 2 2 2 8
  Zumaya   1.0 0 0 0 2 0
  Jones  SV(17) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
0
0
0
0
1

  E–Casilla (6), Buscher (3).  DP–Minnesota 1. Harris-Casilla-Morneau.  2B–Minnesota Morneau (21,off Verlander), Detroit Thomas (9,off Blackburn).  HR–Detroit Thomas (1,2nd inning off Blackburn 1 on 1 out); Joyce (9,8th inning off Bass 0 on 1 out).  IBB–Morneau (9,by Zumaya).  Team LOB–6.  Team–6.  U-HP–Ron Kulpa, 1B–Jim Wolf, 2B–Jerry Layne, 3B–Ed Montague.  T–2:27.  A–41,453.
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