Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
May 27, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 27, 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Cleveland Indians 5, Detroit Tigers 11

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Raines 3b 5 0 2 1
Woodling lf 5 0 1 1
Smith cf 2 1 0 0
Wertz 1b 3 2 2 3
Colavito rf 4 0 0 0
Avila 2b 4 1 2 0
Nixon c 4 0 1 0
  Hegan pr,c 0 0 0 0
  Altobelli ph 1 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 2 0 0 0
  Maris ph 1 0 0 0
  Strickland ss 1 0 1 0
Garcia p 1 1 0 0
  McLish p 0 0 0 0
  Robinson ph 1 0 0 0
  Wynn p 0 0 0 0
  Pitula p 0 0 0 0
  Kuhn ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 9 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 1 2 1
Torgeson 1b 5 1 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 2 2 2
Kaline rf 2 2 1 1
Boone 3b 4 2 2 3
House c 2 0 0 0
  Wilson c 1 1 0 0
Tuttle cf 3 1 0 1
Bolling 2b 3 1 1 1
Lary p 1 0 0 0
  Aber p 1 0 0 0
  Foytack p 1 0 1 2
Totals 32 11 10 11
Cleveland 001 101 200590
Detroit 110 030 42x11100
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Garcia   4.2 5 5 5 5 1
  McLish   1.1 0 0 0 0 2
  Wynn  L (5-5) 1.0 3 4 4 3 0
  Pitula   1.0 2 2 2 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
11
11
8
3
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary   5.2 6 3 3 6 2
  Aber   1.0 2 2 2 1 0
  Foytack  W (4-3) 2.1 1 0 0 3 5
Totals
9.0
9
5
5
10
7

  E–None.  2B–Detroit Maxwell (4,off Garcia); Kaline (10,off Wynn); Torgeson (2,off Pitula)..  3B–Detroit Maxwell (2,off Pitula).  HR–Cleveland Wertz 2 (5,4th inning off Lary 0 on 0 out,7th inning off Aber 1 on 0 out), Detroit Boone (3,5th inning off Garcia 2 on 2 out).  IBB–Wertz (5,by Lary); Boone (4,by Wynn).  Team LOB–13.  SH–Lary (3,off Garcia).  SF–Kaline (4,off Pitula).  Team–7.  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Eddie Rommel, 2B–Johnny Stevens, 3B–Larry Napp.  T–3:22.  A–24,862.
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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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