Toronto Blue Jays vs Minnesota Twins
August 29, 1977 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 29, 1977 at Metropolitan Stadium. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Toronto Blue Jays 6, Minnesota Twins 7

Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Staggs 2b 4 0 1 0
Woods lf,rf 5 1 3 0
Howell 3b 4 0 1 0
Fairly rf 3 2 2 0
  Scott pr,lf 1 0 1 0
Rader dh 3 1 2 1
Ault 1b 5 1 2 1
Torres ss 1 0 0 1
  Ewing ph 1 1 1 2
  McKay ss 2 0 0 0
Ashby c 3 0 2 1
Bowling cf 4 0 0 0
Garvin p 0 0 0 0
  Vuckovich p 0 0 0 0
  Willis p 0 0 0 0
  Murphy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 15 6
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Bostock lf 4 1 2 0
Randall 2b 3 1 1 0
  Cubbage ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Carew 1b 5 2 2 0
Hisle cf 5 3 4 3
Ford rf 3 0 1 1
  Chiles ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Kusick dh 3 0 1 1
  Adams ph,dh 0 0 0 0
  Gorinski ph,dh 1 0 0 1
Bulling c 4 0 0 0
Terrell 3b,2b 4 0 1 0
Gomez ss 3 0 1 0
Redfern p 0 0 0 0
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
  Schueler p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 7 13 6
Toronto 010 005 000 06151
Minnesota 000 201 030 17130
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Garvin   7.0 10 5 5 0 3
  Vuckovich   0.1 1 1 1 1 0
  Willis   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Murphy  L (1-2) 1.1 1 1 1 1 0
Totals
9.2
13
7
7
2
4
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Redfern   5.0 8 3 3 2 1
  Burgmeier   0.1 1 1 1 0 0
  Johnson   0.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Schueler  W (7-6) 4.2 4 0 0 2 4
Totals
10.0
15
6
6
4
5

  E–Ashby (9).  DP–Minnesota 6.  2B–Toronto Ashby (15,off Redfern), Minnesota Kusick (9,off Garvin); Terrell (5,off Willis); Hisle (33,off Murphy).  3B–Toronto Ewing (2,off D Johnson), Minnesota Hisle (3,off Vuckovich).  SH–Howell (3,off Schueler); Rader (3,off Schueler); Randall (8,off Garvin); Gomez (3,off Willis).  SF–Torres (4,off Redfern); Gorinski (1,off Murphy).  IBB–Fairly (9,by Schueler); Bostock (3,by Murphy).  SB–Bostock (14,2nd base off Murphy/Ashby).  CS–Gomez (1,2nd base by Garvin/Ashby).  WP–Vuckovich (11).  IBB–Murphy (3,Bostock); Schueler (5,Fairly).  U-HP–Russ Goetz, 1B–George Maloney, 2B–Ken Kaiser, 3B–Greg Kosc.  T–2:58.
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