| Twins take game #1 5-3 |
| Bert Blyleven pitched 8 strong innings and Jeff Reardon picked up the save as the Minnesota Twins won game one of the 1987 ALCS 5-3 over Toronto. The Twins picked up four of their runs off of Toronto relief pitching. |
| Outs: | 3 | Inning: | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | R | H | E | |
| Away | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 0 | ||||||
| Home | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
| 1987 Minnesota Twins | |||||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | SB | CS | |
| Kirby Puckett | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Gary Gaetti | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tom Brunansky | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Kent Hrbek | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dan Gladden | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Steve Lombardozzi | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Greg Gagne | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Al Newman | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Randy Bush | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | PC | |||
| Bert Blyleven | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117 | ||
| Jeff Reardon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | ||
| 1987 Toronto Blue Jays | |||||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | SB | CS | |
| Tony Fernandez | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lloyd Moseby | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Jesse Barfield | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| George Bell | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fred McGriff | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Willie Upshaw | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ernie Whitt | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Kelly Gruber | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Rance Mulliniks | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | PC | |||
| Jimmy Key | 6.3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 121 | ||
| David Wells | 0.6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19 | |||||
| Mike Flanagan | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 23 | |||||
| Jeff Musselman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||||||