Detroit Tigers vs Kansas City Athletics
August 14, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 14, 1957 at Municipal Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Athletics 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Groth cf 5 0 1 1
Kuenn ss 5 2 2 1
  Samford pr,ss 0 0 0 0
Boone 1b 4 1 2 1
Maxwell lf 4 1 1 1
Kaline rf 5 1 2 1
House c 5 0 1 1
Bertoia 3b 4 0 0 0
  Finigan 3b 0 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 5 2 2 0
Lary p 3 0 1 0
Totals 40 7 12 6
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 4 0 0 0
Martin 2b 4 0 0 0
Zernial lf 3 1 2 0
Skizas 3b 1 0 0 0
  Lopez 3b 3 1 1 0
Cerv rf 4 0 1 1
Held cf 4 0 1 0
Smith c 4 0 2 1
Hunter ss 4 1 0 0
Terry p 2 0 0 0
  Burnette p 0 0 0 0
  McDermott ph,p 1 1 1 2
Totals 34 4 8 4
Detroit 102 012 0107121
Kansas City 000 200 200485
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W (5-15) 9.0 8 4 4 1 5
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
1
5
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Terry  L (3-7) 5.2 8 6 4 1 4
  Burnette   1.1 2 0 0 0 0
  McDermott   2.0 2 1 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
12
7
4
2
5

  E–Bertoia (7), Zernial (8), Lopez 2 (19), Hunter (10), McDermott (2).  DP–Detroit 1. Samford-Bolling-Boone, Kansas City 2. Power-Hunter-Power, Lopez-Power.  2B–Detroit Maxwell (18,off Terry); Bolling (17,off Terry); Kuenn (18,off Terry)..  HR–Detroit Kaline (13,5th inning off Terry 0 on 1 out), Kansas City McDermott (4,7th inning off Lary 1 on 1 out).  SH–Lary (5,off McDermott).  HBP–Bertoia (4,by Terry).  Team LOB–10.  Team–4.  SB–Boone (1,2nd base off Terry/Smith).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Eddie Rommel, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:34.  A–10,262.
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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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