Cleveland Indians vs Kansas City Athletics
May 29, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 29, 1955 at Municipal Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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 4, Kansas City Athletics 2

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf 5 1 2 0
Avila 2b 4 0 1 2
Doby cf 5 1 3 1
Rosen 3b 4 0 0 0
Westlake lf 4 0 1 0
Mitchell 1b 4 1 1 0
Dente ss 3 1 2 1
Foiles c 0 0 0 0
  Hegan c 3 0 0 0
Score p 4 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
  Mossi p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 10 4
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 5 0 1 1
Lopez 2b 4 0 0 0
Finigan 3b 4 0 1 0
Zernial lf 4 1 2 1
Renna rf 4 0 0 0
  Valo ph 1 0 0 0
Wilson cf 3 0 1 0
DeMaestri ss 1 0 0 0
  Littrell ss 2 0 0 0
Shantz B. c 4 1 3 0
Shantz B. p 3 0 1 0
  Slaughter ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 36 2 10 2
Cleveland 002 002 0004101
Kansas City 000 000 0112100
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  W(5-3) 8.0 8 2 2 5 5
  Narleski   0.2 2 0 0 0 1
  Mossi  SV(2) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
2
2
5
7
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Shantz  L(3-5) 9.0 10 4 4 4 6
  Aber   1.0 3 3 3 1 1
  Zuverink   5.0 2 1 0 3 0
  Fletcher   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
16.0
19
13
12
11
10

  E–Score (2).  2B–Cleveland Smith 2 (11,off Bobby Shantz 2); Dente (1,off Bobby Shantz)., Kansas City Wilson (10,off Score).  3B–Cleveland Avila (2,off Bobby Shantz).  HR–Cleveland Doby (4,6th inning off Bobby Shantz 0 on 0 out), Kansas City Zernial (12,8th inning off Score 0 on 0 out).  IBB–Hegan (2,by Bobby Shantz).  Team LOB–9.  Team–12.  CS–Wilson (2,3rd base by Score/Hegan).  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Johnny Stevens, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Bill Grieve.
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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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