Boston Red Sox vs Minnesota Twins
May 30, 1986 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 30, 1986 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Minnesota Twins defeated the Boston Red Sox 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota Twins 13

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Barrett 2b 3 1 1 0
Boggs 3b 5 2 3 0
Buckner 1b 4 0 2 2
  Romero ss 0 0 0 0
Rice lf 5 1 4 2
Baylor dh 5 0 1 0
Evans rf 4 0 1 0
Armas cf 5 0 3 1
Sullivan c 3 1 0 0
  Gedman ph,c 2 0 0 0
Quinones ss 3 0 0 0
  Stenhouse ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Woodward p 0 0 0 0
  Lollar p 0 0 0 0
  Crawford p 0 0 0 0
  Sambito p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 5 15 5
Minnesota Twins ab   r   h rbi
Puckett cf 4 2 2 1
Smalley dh 4 3 2 4
Hrbek 1b 5 2 1 0
Brunansky rf 5 1 2 2
Bush lf 1 1 1 2
  Hatcher ph,lf 3 0 1 0
Gaetti 3b 4 1 1 0
Lombardozzi 2b 4 1 2 2
Reed c 4 1 2 0
Gagne ss 5 1 1 1
Viola p 0 0 0 0
  Atherton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 13 15 12
Boston 121 100 0005152
Minnesota 305 010 40x13150
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Woodward  L (0-1) 2.0 3 5 3 2 0
  Lollar   1.1 3 3 3 2 2
  Crawford   2.2 6 4 4 2 0
  Sambito   2.0 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
15
13
11
6
3
  Minnesota Twins IP H R ER BB SO
Viola   3.2 10 5 5 2 2
  Atherton  W (2-2) 5.1 5 0 0 1 5
Totals
9.0
15
5
5
3
7

  E–Barrett (5), Quinones (3).  DP–Boston 1, Minnesota 1.  2B–Boston Barrett (12,off Atherton), Minnesota Bush (5,off Woodward); Lombardozzi (7,off Lollar); Brunansky (9,off Lollar); Gaetti (10,off Crawford); Reed (1,off Crawford); Gagne (7,off Crawford).  HR–Minnesota Smalley 2 (8,3rd inning off Woodward 0 on, 0 out,7th inning off Sambito 2 on, 0 out); Brunansky (11,3rd inning off Lollar 1 on, 0 out).  HBP–Buckner (2,by Viola).  WP–Lollar (2).  HBP–Viola (1,Buckner).  U-HP–Steve Palermo, 1B–Joe Brinkman, 2B–Ken Kaiser, 3B–Terry Cooney.  T–3:25.  A–16,669.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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