Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
July 1, 1953 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 1, 1953 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Cleveland Indians 2, Detroit Tigers 4

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Mitchell lf 4 1 2 0
Avila 2b 4 0 0 0
Rosen 3b 3 1 1 2
Easter 1b 4 0 1 0
  Glynn pr 0 0 0 0
Doby cf 4 0 1 0
Kennedy rf 3 0 0 0
Strickland ss 2 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 0 0 0
Lemon p 2 0 1 0
  Majeski ph 1 0 0 0
  Hooper p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 6 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 0
Pesky 2b 3 1 1 0
Boone 3b 4 0 1 0
Dropo 1b 3 1 1 1
Delsing cf 3 2 1 0
Souchock lf 4 0 1 0
Batts c 4 0 1 0
Lund rf 4 0 2 1
Gray p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 8 2
Cleveland 200 000 000261
Detroit 020 100 10x480
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L(10-7) 7.0 8 4 3 4 1
  Hooper   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
4
3
4
1
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Gray  W(3-9) 9.0 6 2 2 2 9
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
2
9

  E–B. Lemon (3).  DP–Detroit 1. Boone-Pesky-Dropo.  2B–Cleveland Mitchell (10,off Gray), Detroit Pesky (5,off B. Lemon); Boone (4,off B. Lemon).  HR–Cleveland Rosen (18,1st inning off Gray 1 on 1 out).  SH–Strickland (3,off Gray).  Team LOB–4.  Team–8.  CS–Rosen (3,2nd base by Gray/Batts).  U-HP–Art Passarella, 1B–Bill Grieve, 2B–Grover Froese, 3B–Larry Napp.
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Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

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