Detroit Tigers vs Minnesota Twins
September 18, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 18, 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 0, Minnesota Twins 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Raburn lf 4 0 0 0
Polanco 2b 2 0 0 0
Ordonez rf 4 0 0 0
Cabrera 1b 4 0 0 0
Thames dh 4 0 2 0
Inge 3b 3 0 1 0
  Avila ph 0 0 0 0
Granderson cf 4 0 2 0
Laird c 3 0 0 0
  Huff ph 1 0 0 0
Everett ss 2 0 0 0
  Santiago ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Porcello p 0 0 0 0
  Ni p 0 0 0 0
  Perry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 5 0
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Span cf,rf 3 0 1 0
Cabrera ss 4 0 0 0
Mauer c 2 0 0 0
Kubel rf 4 2 2 0
  Gomez cf 0 0 0 0
Cuddyer 1b 4 1 1 2
Young lf 4 0 2 1
Morales dh 4 0 2 0
  Casilla pr,dh 0 0 0 0
Tolbert 3b 4 0 1 0
Punto 2b 2 0 0 0
Duensing p 0 0 0 0
  Mijares p 0 0 0 0
  Rauch p 0 0 0 0
  Nathan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 9 3
Detroit 000 000 000050
Minnesota 000 201 00x390
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Porcello  L(13-9) 6.0 8 3 3 1 1
  Ni   1.0 0 0 0 2 1
  Perry   1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
9
3
3
3
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Duensing  W(4-1) 6.1 4 0 0 1 1
  Mijares   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Rauch   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Nathan  SV(42) 1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
2
3

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Polanco-Everett-Cabrera.  2B–Detroit Thames (11,off Duensing); Granderson (21,off Nathan), Minnesota Kubel (31,off Porcello); Young (13,off Porcello).  HR–Minnesota Cuddyer (27,4th inning off Porcello 1 on 1 out).  HBP–Polanco (9,by Rauch).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Span (10,off Ni).  IBB–Mauer (9,by Ni).  Team–8.  SB–Casilla (11,2nd base off Perry/Laird).  U-HP–Jerry Layne, 1B–Tony Randazzo, 2B–Chris Guccione, 3B–Mike Winters.  T–2:42.  A–32,693.
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