Cleveland Indians vs Kansas City Athletics
April 25, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 25, 1957 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 5, Kansas City Athletics 3

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Raines ss 3 0 0 0
  Woodling ph 0 1 0 0
  Carrasquel ss 0 0 0 1
Smith cf 4 1 1 1
Maris lf 5 0 1 0
Wertz 1b 3 1 1 2
  Altobelli 1b 0 0 0 0
Colavito rf 4 0 0 0
Avila 3b 4 0 1 0
Strickland 2b 2 1 1 0
Hegan c 2 1 1 1
Wynn p 4 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 6 5
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Graff 2b 4 0 0 0
  Power ph 1 0 1 0
  Hunter pr 0 0 0 0
Lopez 3b 5 1 1 0
Zernial lf 4 2 2 2
Simpson 1b 3 0 2 0
Skizas rf 4 0 0 0
Smith c 4 0 1 1
Pisoni cf 2 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 1 0 0 0
Burnette p 2 0 1 0
  Gorman p 0 0 0 0
  McDermott ph 1 0 0 0
  Host p 0 0 0 0
  Noren ph 0 0 0 0
  Boyer pr 0 0 0 0
DeMaestri ss 3 0 0 0
  Cerv ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 8 3
Cleveland 010 000 310561
Kansas City 000 100 020380
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wynn  W (1-1) 7.2 7 3 3 2 4
  Narleski  SV (1) 1.1 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
3
5
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Burnette  L (1-1) 6.2 6 4 4 6 4
  Gorman   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Host   2.0 0 1 1 2 1
Totals
9.0
6
5
5
9
5

  E–Carrasquel (2).  DP–Cleveland 1. Maris-Strickland-Wertz, Kansas City 1. Smith-DeMaestri.  2B–Cleveland Hegan (1,off Burnette); Wertz (2,off Burnette)., Kansas City Simpson (2,off Wynn).  HR–Kansas City Zernial (2,8th inning off Wynn 1 on 2 out).  SF–Carrasquel (1,off Host).  Team LOB–9.  Team–8.  CS–Smith (1,2nd base by Burnette/Smith).  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–2:46.  A–8,135.
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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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