The Cleveland Guardians beat the Minnesota Twins 5-2 on Aug 30, 2023 at Target Field.
Final · Target Field
Top performers
- Kole Calhoun went 1-for-4 with 1 home run and 3 RBI for the Guardians.
- Tanner Bibee pitched 5.0 innings for the Guardians, allowing 2 earned runs with 8 strikeouts.
- Jorge Polanco went 2-for-2 with 2 RBI for the Twins.
- Sonny Gray pitched 7.0 innings for the Twins, allowing 0 earned runs with 5 strikeouts.
Cleveland Guardians box score
Batting
| AB: At-bats: trips to the plate that ended in a hit, an out or an error. Walks and sacrifices are not counted. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | HR: Home runs hit. | RBI: Runs that scored because of this batter's plate appearance. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | SO: Times this batter struck out — lower is better. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramon Laureano | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Steven Kwan | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kole Calhoun | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Gabriel Arias | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jose Ramirez | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Myles Straw | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andres Gimenez | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Bo Naylor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 28 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
Pitching
| IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | ER: Earned runs allowed — runs that scored without help from an error. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | HR: Home runs hit. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanner Bibee | 5.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| James Karinchak | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Emmanuel Clase | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Trevor Stephan | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Team | 8.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 0 |
Minnesota Twins box score
Batting
| AB: At-bats: trips to the plate that ended in a hit, an out or an error. Walks and sacrifices are not counted. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | HR: Home runs hit. | RBI: Runs that scored because of this batter's plate appearance. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | SO: Times this batter struck out — lower is better. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donovan Solano | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Max Kepler | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Carlos Correa | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ryan Jeffers | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Royce Lewis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Edouard Julien | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Jorge Polanco | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Matt Wallner | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Michael A. Taylor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Joey Gallo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 30 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
Pitching
| IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | ER: Earned runs allowed — runs that scored without help from an error. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | HR: Home runs hit. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonny Gray | 7.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Jhoan Duran | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Emilio Pagan | 0.2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Griffin Jax | 0.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Caleb Thielbar | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kody Funderburk | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 10.0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
Before and after
- Guardians · 2023 season · Previous Aug 29, 2023: CLE 4, MIN 2 · Next Sep 1, 2023: TB 2, CLE 3
- Twins · 2023 season · Previous Aug 29, 2023: CLE 4, MIN 2 · Next Sep 1, 2023: MIN 5, TEX 1