The Minnesota Twins were defeated by the Detroit Tigers, 8 to 4, on May 5, 1979.

Final

Tigers

9-11

8

Twins

17-8

4

DET

MIN

Summary

Player Stats

Top 1st

DET

MIN

Double by Rusty Staub; Ron LeFlore and Jerry Morales scored.

Double by Steve Kemp; Rusty Staub scored.

Top 2nd

DET

MIN

Double by Rusty Staub; Ron LeFlore scored.

Double by Steve Kemp; Rusty Staub scored.

Top 3rd

DET

MIN

Single by Ron LeFlore; Phil Mankowski scored.

Bottom 3rd

DET

MIN

Triple by Roy Smalley; Rick Sofield scored.

Bottom 4th

DET

MIN

Double by Rob Wilfong; Glenn Adams scored.

Bottom 6th

DET

MIN

Home run by Butch Wynegar.

Bottom 7th

DET

MIN

Jose Morales grounded out; Roy Smalley scored.

Top 8th

DET

MIN

Triple by Ron LeFlore; Alan Trammell scored.

Single by Jason Thompson; Ron LeFlore scored.

Tigers

Twins

Batters

Player	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB
Ron LeFlore CF R. LeFlore	4	3	3	0	1	2	1	0	1
Lynn Jones CF L. Jones	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Morales RF J. Morales	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rusty Staub DH R. Staub	4	2	2	2	0	3	1	0	0
Steve Kemp LF S. Kemp	4	0	3	2	0	2	1	0	0
Jason Thompson 1B J. Thompson	3	0	2	0	0	1	2	0	0
Lance Parrish C L. Parrish	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Phil Mankowski 3B P. Mankowski	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0
Aurelio Rodriguez 3B A. Rodriguez	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Wagner 2B M. Wagner	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alan Trammell SS A. Trammell	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Totals	37	8	13	4	1	8	7	2	1

Pitchers

Player	GS	W	SO	CG	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	GSc
Mark Fidrych M. Fidrych	1	0	1	0	4.0	4	2	2	0	2	45
Sheldon Burnside S. Burnside	0	0	1	0	1.1	2	1	1	1	1
Jack Billingham (W) J. Billingham	0	1	3	0	3.2	4	1	1	0	1
Totals		1	5		9.0	10	4	4	1	4

Batters

Player	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO
Mike Cubbage 3B M. Cubbage	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Castino PH,3B J. Castino	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Roy Smalley SS R. Smalley	4	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
Ken Landreaux LF K. Landreaux	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
Glenn Adams DH G. Adams	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Morales PH J. Morales	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Butch Wynegar C B. Wynegar	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1
Ron Jackson 1B R. Jackson	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rob Wilfong 2B R. Wilfong	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Randall PH,2B B. Randall	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Willie Norwood CF W. Norwood	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Rick Sofield RF R. Sofield	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Bombo Rivera PH,RF B. Rivera	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Totals	37	4	10	2	1	1	4	4	5

Pitchers

Player	GS	L	SO	CG	IP	H	ER	R	BB	GSc
Paul Hartzell (L) P. Hartzell	1	1	1	0	4.0	11	6	6	3	14
Mike Bacsik M. Bacsik	0	0	1	0	3.1	1	0	2	3
Ken Brett K. Brett	0	0	0	0	0.2	1	0	0	1
Gary Serum G. Serum	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
Totals		1	2		9.0	13	6	8	7