Box Score of the Week

Cleveland Indians at Minnesota Twins -- September 29, 1986.

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On May 11, Dustin Fowler of the Oakland A's collected his career first base hit in a game against the New York Yankees. It came against Yankees starter Sonny Gray, the player whom Oakland traded to the Yanks for Fowler and two others in July 2017. It's a pretty rare occurrence when a hitter gets his first MLB hit against a player for whom he was traded. 

In the game I featured this week, Cleveland's Jay Bell, on the very first pitch he ever saw in the big leagues, homered against Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven. It was Bell and three other players whom the Twins traded away in July 1985 in order to acquire Blyleven. 

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