Cleveland Indians vs Kansas City Athletics
May 31, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 1957 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Athletics 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 1, Kansas City Athletics 3

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Raines 3b 4 0 1 1
Busby cf 3 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 4 0 0 0
Colavito rf 3 0 1 0
Maris lf 3 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 3 0 1 0
Naragon c 3 0 1 0
  Kuhn pr 0 0 0 0
  Avila 2b 0 0 0 0
Strickland 2b 2 0 0 0
  Woodling ph 1 0 0 0
  Mossi p 0 0 0 0
McLish p 0 1 0 0
  Tomanek p 1 0 0 0
  Robinson ph 1 0 0 0
  Hegan c 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 4 1
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power rf,1b 4 0 0 0
Cerv cf 3 1 2 0
Zernial lf 4 0 0 0
Noren 1b 3 0 0 0
  Groth rf 1 0 0 0
Skizas 3b 4 0 1 0
Smith c 4 0 1 0
DeMaestri ss 3 0 1 0
Garver p 1 1 1 0
Hunter 2b 3 1 1 2
Totals 30 3 7 2
Cleveland 001 000 000142
Kansas City 003 000 00x371
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
McLish  L (3-2) 2.1 4 3 2 1 1
  Tomanek   4.2 3 0 0 2 3
  Mossi   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
3
2
3
4
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  W (4-3) 9.0 4 1 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
4
1
0
1
2

  E–Raines 2 (3), Noren (1).  DP–Cleveland 3. Carrasquel-Strickland-Wertz, Carrasquel-Wertz, Tomanek-Wertz, Kansas City 2. Hunter-Noren-DeMaestri-Skizas, Power-DeMaestri-Power.  PB–Naragon (2).  2B–Kansas City Garver (1,off McLish); Cerv (6,off McLish)..  HR–Kansas City Hunter (1,3rd inning off McLish 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–2.  Team–6.  U-HP–Frank Umont, 1B–Joe Paparella, 2B–Johnny Stevens, 3B–Ed Runge.  T–2:13.  A–12,819.
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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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