California Angels vs Minnesota Twins
June 21, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 21, 1978 at Metropolitan Stadium. The California Angels defeated the Minnesota Twins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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California Angels 5, Minnesota Twins 2

California Angels ab   r   h rbi
Machemer 2b 4 1 1 1
Chalk ss 4 0 0 0
Bostock rf 4 0 1 0
Rudi lf 4 1 1 0
Baylor 1b 4 1 1 2
  Fairly 1b 0 0 0 0
Jackson 3b 4 1 1 0
Rettenmund dh 2 1 0 0
Miller cf 4 0 1 2
Downing c 3 0 0 0
Aase p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 6 5
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Powell rf 4 1 1 0
Smalley ss 3 1 1 2
Carew 1b 4 0 1 0
Ford cf 4 0 1 0
Cubbage 3b 4 0 0 0
Wynegar c 3 0 1 0
Adams dh 3 0 0 0
Norwood lf 3 0 0 0
Wilfong 2b 2 0 0 0
  Chiles ph 1 0 0 0
  Randall 2b 0 0 0 0
Zahn p 0 0 0 0
  Thayer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
California 300 000 200561
Minnesota 200 000 000250
  California Angels IP H R ER BB SO
Aase  W (4-3) 9.0 5 2 2 1 8
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
1
8
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Zahn  L (7-5) 8.0 6 5 5 1 2
  Thayer   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
6
5
5
2
3

  E–Chalk (9).  DP–California 1.  3B–California R Miller (1,off Zahn).  HR–California Machemer (1,1st inning off Zahn 0 on, 0 out); Baylor (17,1st inning off Zahn 1 on, 2 out), Minnesota Smalley (5,1st inning off Aase 1 on, 0 out).  U-HP–Dale Ford, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Russ Goetz, 3B–Fred Spenn.  T–2:13.  A–10,801.
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