Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
July 3, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 3, 2009 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. 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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Detroit Tigers 11, Minnesota Twins 9

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Granderson cf 6 2 2 0
Polanco 2b 8 2 3 3
Cabrera 1b 8 0 1 0
Thames dh 5 1 2 2
  Raburn pr,dh 3 0 2 1
Kelly lf 5 1 1 0
  Ordonez ph,rf 3 0 1 1
Inge 3b 6 1 1 0
Anderson rf,lf 7 1 1 2
Laird c 6 2 2 2
Santiago ss 6 1 1 0
French p 0 0 0 0
  Miner p 0 0 0 0
  Ni p 0 0 0 0
  Lyon p 0 0 0 0
  Seay p 0 0 0 0
  Zumaya p 0 0 0 0
  Rodney p 0 0 0 0
  Dolsi p 0 0 0 0
Totals 63 11 17 11
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Span lf,cf 8 1 5 2
Harris ss 8 1 1 1
Mauer c 6 2 2 1
Morneau 1b 7 0 3 1
Cuddyer rf 8 0 3 2
Crede 3b 8 1 1 1
Young dh 6 1 3 1
Gomez cf 4 1 0 0
  Kubel ph,lf 3 0 0 0
Punto 2b 2 2 0 0
  Buscher ph 1 0 0 0
  Tolbert 2b 2 0 0 0
Slowey p 0 0 0 0
  Duensing p 0 0 0 0
  Keppel p 0 0 0 0
  Nathan p 0 0 0 0
  Guerrier p 0 0 0 0
  Mijares p 0 0 0 0
  Dickey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 63 9 18 9
Detroit 033 100 000 000 010 311171
Minnesota 001 105 000 000 010 19181
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
French   4.2 6 2 2 2 3
  Miner   0.2 4 5 5 1 0
  Ni   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Lyon   2.0 3 0 0 0 0
  Seay   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Zumaya   2.1 1 0 0 2 4
  Rodney   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Dolsi  W(1-0) 3.0 4 2 1 0 1
Totals
16.0
18
9
8
5
10
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Slowey   3.0 5 6 6 0 4
  Duensing   3.2 1 1 1 1 2
  Keppel   1.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Nathan   1.0 0 0 0 1 2
  Guerrier   2.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Mijares   2.0 0 0 0 0 3
  Dickey  L(1-1) 3.0 9 4 4 0 0
Totals
16.0
17
11
11
2
12

  E–Dolsi (1), Mauer (2).  DP–Detroit 2. Inge-Polanco-Cabrera, Polanco-Santiago-Cabrera, Minnesota 1. Tolbert-Morneau.  PB–Laird (5).  2B–Detroit Polanco (19,off Slowey); Cabrera (17,off Keppel); Granderson (9,off Dickey), Minnesota Cuddyer (18,off French); Young (6,off Lyon); Morneau (21,off Dolsi).  3B–Detroit Anderson (4,off Slowey), Minnesota Span (4,off Miner); Harris (1,off Miner).  HR–Detroit Thames (6,3rd inning off Slowey 1 on 1 out); Laird (4,4th inning off Duensing 0 on 1 out), Minnesota Young (3,4th inning off French 0 on 1 out); Crede (12,6th inning off Miner 0 on 0 out).  SH–Santiago (6,off Dickey).  SF–Laird (3,off Slowey); Mauer (5,off Ni).  HBP–Inge 2 (8,by Slowey,by Keppel).  Team LOB–10.  IBB–Mauer (3,by Zumaya); Morneau (10,by Zumaya).  Team–12.  SB–Granderson (14,2nd base off Nathan/Mauer).  U-HP–Eric Cooper, 1B–Mike Reilly, 2B–Chuck Meriwether, 3B–Laz Diaz.  T–5:07.  A–33,368.
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