Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
May 14, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 14, 2009 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 5, Minnesota Twins 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Granderson cf 4 0 0 0
Santiago 2b 4 1 2 1
Ordonez rf 4 1 1 2
Cabrera 1b 4 1 2 0
Larish dh 2 0 0 0
  Raburn ph,dh 0 0 0 0
  Anderson ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Thomas lf 4 0 1 2
Inge 3b 4 1 1 0
Everett ss 4 1 2 0
Sardinha c 3 0 0 0
  Laird c 0 0 0 0
Verlander p 0 0 0 0
  Seay p 0 0 0 0
  Miner p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 9 5
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Span cf,lf 5 1 2 0
Tolbert 2b 4 0 0 1
Mauer c 3 1 1 1
Morneau dh 4 1 1 1
Kubel lf 4 1 3 1
  Gomez cf 0 0 0 0
Cuddyer rf 3 0 0 0
Crede 3b 4 0 1 2
Buscher 1b 3 1 1 0
Punto ss 3 1 0 0
Baker p 0 0 0 0
  Breslow p 0 0 0 0
  Guerrier p 0 0 0 0
  Nathan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 6 9 6
Detroit 000 005 000590
Minnesota 000 000 60x690
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Verlander   6.1 5 2 2 3 13
  Seay  L(0-1) 0.1 3 4 4 1 0
  Miner   1.1 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
5
14
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Baker   6.0 7 5 5 1 4
  Breslow  W(1-1) 1.2 2 0 0 0 1
  Guerrier   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Nathan  SV(6) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
5
5
1
7

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 2. Punto-Tolbert-Buscher, Crede-Tolbert-Buscher, Minnesota 2. Punto-Tolbert-Buscher, Crede-Tolbert-Buscher.  2B–Detroit Santiago (3,off Baker); Cabrera (4,off Baker), Minnesota Kubel 2 (11,off Verlander,off Seay).  Team LOB–3.  Team–8.  U-HP–Paul Nauert, 1B–Joe West, 2B–Ed Rapuano, 3B–Paul Schrieber.  T–2:51.  A–26,046.
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