August 8, 2011: Red Sox at Twins - Game 1-3

From Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

USA

Boston Red Sox

(70-43)

Manager: Terry Francona

@

Minnesota Twins

(51-63)

Manager: Ron Gardenhire

Game 1 of 3

First pitch: 7:00 PM EST


Starting Pitchers
Boston Red Sox - Tim Wakefield
Minnesota Twins - Scott Baker


Umpires
Home - Marvin Hudson
1B - Tim Mcclelland
2B - Ted Barrett
3B - Brian Runge


Weather
Party Cloudy
Temp - 82F | 28C
Wind -n/a



















Line ups and pitching totals from ESPN - Box Score.

Colour Legend (as of this date)

Neon Green is a Base Hit Forest Green is a runner advanced by a Base Hit or a Sacrifice Yellow is Intentional Base on Balls, Defensive Indifference, a Sacrafice or Fielder's Choice Red is an out Pink are un-earned bases - Wild Pitch, Passed Ball or an Error Neon Blue is a Stolen Base Navy Blue is a base earned via a Hit or a Sacrifice, that results in a Run Scored

The Scoring Notations

BB Base on Balls - Batter to first base because the umpire ruled that pitched ball was the forth pitch of the at-bat out of the strike zone HBP Hit By Pitch - Batter is ruled by the umpire to have been hit by pitch - awarded one base BH Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at first base via a hit ball 2BH Two Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at second base via a hit ball 3BH Three Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at third base via a hit ball HR Home Run - Batter-runner safe at home plate via a hit ball RBI Run Batted In - via a SAC, a BH or a BB - a run scores RS Run Scored. SAC Sacrifice - With less than two outs the batter causes a base runner to advance but in the process, is put out FC Ball hit on the ground, fielded and a put out made anywhere but at 1B DI Defensive Indifference - A baserunner advances because the defence, for strategic reasons, does nothing IBB Intentional Base on Balls - The defences decides to walk a batter for strategic reasons

SB Stolen Base - Base runner advances on a pitched ball despite the defence's best efforts CS Caught Stealing - A baserunner is put out while tring to advance on a pitch K Called third strike - Batter out because the umpire ruled that with two strikes in an at-bat, a pitched ball was in the strike zone Ks Batter out, swinging third strike IFR Infield Fly Rule - A ball popped up on the infield that an umpire rules is easily catch-able - batter-runner is out, the ball is dead LO Ball caught that was hit so hard it appears like the vector was a straight line GO Ball hit on the ground, fielded and the batter-runner is put out at 1B FO A high arching hit ball caught on the fly by a fielder E The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar play Eth The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar throw WP Wild Pitch - a pitched ball that bounces in and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing PB Passed Ball - a pitched ball that doesn't bounce and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing

pop A ball hit in a high arch such that the distance travelled up is greater than the distance travelled from the plate GR To prevent injury, "Ground Rules" define what hit or thrown balls are in, and out of play - announced before each game by the home team manager f Hit ball caught in foul territory - for example "FO3f" - Fly Ball caught by First Base, foul op Out of Play - for example "FO5op", Fly ball caught by Third Base across the railing in the stands, or in the camera bay... BRIF Base runner is out for interfering with the defence while they're making a play on a batted ball Kf2 Foul tip with 2 strikes, caught by catcher - strike three - - - - - - - - - - - -

Box Score - Final	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Boston Red Sox	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	1	2	-	-	8	17	2	8
Minnesota Twins	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	-	-	6	10	1	3

Boston Red Sox	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  J Ellsbury CF	Ks		pop FO3		4-3 /		IF-BH4 #9 1,2		Perkins + picked off 1-3 BH8
2.  C Crawford LF	Ks		FO9			RS 3BH8 deep	SAC bunt1 1-3 #9 2,3 #1 1,2		Ks
3.  A Gonzalez 1B 9th PR D McDonald	FC BH9		FO7 /			SAC RBI FO7 #2 3,H	DP IBB		RS #1 picked 1-3 BH8 PR (2B)
4.  D Pedroia 2B	GB6 FC 6-4 #3 out /			Ks		RS BH8	M Capps + GB5 DP 5-4-3 #3 out /		Nathan + RS IF-BH5 #3 1,2 #3 PR
5.  D Ortiz DH		RS BH8(9)		FO7		RS 2RBI HR9 #4 1,H		RS 2BH8 deep	RBI BH8 #3 2,H #4 1,3
6.  J Saltalamacchia C		Ks		3UA /		RS RBI HR9		GB3 3UA #5 2,3	2BH7 #4 3,H #5 1,3
7.  J Reddick RF		pop FO6			Ks	LO6		GB6 FC 6-2 E2 #5 3,H	3UA /
8.  J Lowrie 3B		(scorer's error - left on 2B) BH9 #5 1,2			pop FO6	FO8 /		6-3 #7 2,3
9.  M Scutaro SS		8-6-2-5 tagged FC Throw over cut-off to HP RBI BH8 #4 2,H #7 1,2 #7 2,3 out /			BH9		Dumatrait + BH8	6-3 /
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 1 1	1 3 1 1	0 0 0	0 0 1 0	0 1 0 1	4 4 0 0	0 2 0 2	1 1 0 1	2 5 0 2

Red Sox Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Tim Wakefield	7.0	8	5	3	0	4	1	102/74	4.92
Alfredo Aceves	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	13/8	3.18
Jonathan Papelbon	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	14/10	3.21

Minnesota Twins	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  D Span CF	Ks	FO5f /			FO7		FO8 (/)
2.  T Plouffe 2B	5-3		Ks		RS BH7		FB> #9 CS --->	RS GR-2BH9
3.  J Mauer C	4-3 /		Ks		RBI 2BH8(9) deep #2 1,H			FO8 #2 2,3
4.  M Cuddyer 1B		RS 2BH7 deep	FO8 /		5-3 /			5-3
5.  J Kubel RF 8th PR  J Repko RF		RS BH7 #4 2,3 E2 (catch) #4 3,H #5 1,2		RS RBI HR9		FO8		RBI BH8 #2 3,H PR
6.  J Thome DH		RS RBI 2BH8 deep #5 2,H		DP GB5 E5 safe at first		LD FO9		6-3 /
7.  D Valencia 3B		GB1 1-3 #6 2,3		GB5 DP 5-4-3 #6 out		Ks /			Papelbon + Ks
8.  D Young LF		5-3		6-3 /			LO5		Ks
9.  M Tolbert SS		PB #6 3,H BH8			6-3		CS (#2) BH8(9) short		4-3 /
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	3 4 0 1	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 0	1 2 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 0	1 2 1 1	0 0 0 0

Twins' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Scott Baker	6.0	9	5	5	0	5	2
Phil Dumatrait	0.1	2	0	0	1	0	0
Matt Cappss	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Glen Perkins	1.2	3	2	2	0	1	0
Joe Nathan	0.1	3	1	1	0	0	0