Game 3:

Friday, October 4, 2002 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Team

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

R

H

E

Oakland

2

0

0

1

0

1

2

0

0

6

9

1

Minnesota

0

0

0

1

2

0

0

0

0

3

8

0

WP: Barry Zito (1–0)   LP: Rick Reed (0–1)

SV: Billy Koch (1)

Home runs:
OAK: Ray Durham (1), Scott Hatteberg (1),

Terrence Long (1), Jermaine Dye (1)
MIN: None



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Ray Durham stunned the Twin fans inside the Metrodome by leading off the game with an inside-the-park home run, the first in Division Series history. Scott Hatteberg hit a home run to right field moments later, to stake 23-game winner Barry Zito to a 2–0 lead. Minnesota tied the game at three in the fifth, but the A's powered their way to a win with help from a Jermaine Dye home run and a two-run seventh. It was just the second postseason loss at the HHH Metrodome for the Twins (11–1 home record coming into the game), the last coming in 1991 to Toronto in the ALCS.