The Minnesota Twins beat the Cleveland Guardians 8-3 on Sep 5, 2023 at Progressive Field.
Final · Progressive Field
Top performers
- Christian Vazquez went 2-for-2 with 1 home run and 1 RBI for the Twins.
- Sonny Gray pitched 6.0 innings for the Twins, allowing 3 earned runs with 4 strikeouts.
- Bo Naylor went 1-for-2 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Guardians.
- Tanner Bibee pitched 5.0 innings for the Guardians, allowing 2 earned runs with 4 strikeouts.
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 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Jorge Polanco | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Max Kepler | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Willi Castro | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Carlos Correa | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kyle Farmer | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Royce Lewis | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Edouard Julien | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Christian Vazquez | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Joey Gallo | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Matt Wallner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 33 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
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 | 6.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Caleb Thielbar | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Emilio Pagan | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Griffin Jax | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Naylor | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andres Gimenez | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gabriel Arias | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Steven Kwan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jose Ramirez | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kole Calhoun | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Myles Straw | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Bo Naylor | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| David Fry | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 27 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 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 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Matt Moore | 1.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Reynaldo Lopez | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Trevor Stephan | 0.2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 7.2 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 1 |
Before and after
- Twins · 2023 season · Previous Sep 4, 2023: MIN 20, CLE 6 · Next Sep 6, 2023: MIN 1, CLE 2
- Guardians · 2023 season · Previous Sep 4, 2023: MIN 20, CLE 6 · Next Sep 6, 2023: MIN 1, CLE 2