Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
April 20, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 20, 1957 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 0, Detroit Tigers 7

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith cf 4 0 0 0
Avila 3b 4 0 1 0
Wertz 1b 3 0 1 0
  Altobelli pr,1b 0 0 0 0
Colavito rf 4 0 1 0
Maris lf 4 0 1 0
Carrasquel ss 2 0 1 0
  Raines ss 2 0 0 0
Naragon c 3 0 1 0
  Nixon c 1 0 1 0
  Harrell pr 0 0 0 0
Strickland 2b 4 0 0 0
Wynn p 1 0 0 0
  Tomanek p 0 0 0 0
  McLish p 1 0 0 0
  Woodling ph 1 0 1 0
  Houtteman p 0 0 0 0
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 0 8 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 3 1 0 0
  Torgeson 1b 0 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 5 1 2 2
Maxwell lf 4 1 1 1
Kaline rf 4 1 1 0
Boone 1b 3 1 0 0
  Samford ss 0 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 4 1 3 2
House c 4 0 3 1
Bertoia 3b 4 1 1 0
Lary p 3 0 2 1
Totals 34 7 13 7
Cleveland 000 000 000081
Detroit 022 200 10x7130
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wynn  L (0-1) 3.0 6 4 4 1 0
  Tomanek   0.2 3 2 2 1 0
  McLish   2.1 1 0 0 0 1
  Houtteman   2.0 3 1 1 2 1
Totals
8.0
13
7
7
4
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W (1-1) 9.0 8 0 0 1 6
Totals
9.0
8
0
0
1
6

  E–Raines (1).  DP–Cleveland 1. Avila-Strickland-Wertz.  2B–Cleveland Wertz (1,off Lary), Detroit Tuttle (1,off Wynn); Kaline (1,off Wynn); House (2,off Houtteman)..  HR–Detroit Bolling (1,3rd inning off Wynn 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Lary (2,off Tomanek).  Team–8.  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–2:22.  A–11,907.
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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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