Detroit Tigers vs Kansas City Athletics
August 15, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 15, 1957 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Athletics defeated the Detroit Tigers 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 2, Kansas City Athletics 7

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Groth cf 5 1 2 1
Kuenn ss 5 0 2 0
Boone 1b 4 0 1 1
Maxwell lf 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 0
House c 4 0 1 0
Bertoia 3b 3 0 0 0
  Porter ph 1 0 1 0
Bolling 2b 4 0 1 0
Bunning p 0 0 0 0
  Small ph 1 0 1 0
  Shaw p 0 0 0 0
  Philley ph 1 1 0 0
  Sleater p 0 0 0 0
  Tuttle ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 2 10 2
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 4 2 2 0
Hunter ss 5 1 3 2
Zernial lf 4 0 0 0
  Martyn lf 0 0 0 0
Cerv rf 4 0 1 1
Martin 2b 4 2 2 1
Held cf 3 1 1 2
Smith c 3 0 1 0
Lopez 3b 4 1 1 1
Urban p 4 0 0 0
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 7 11 7
Detroit 100 000 1002100
Kansas City 400 100 11x7112
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning  L (14-5) 4.0 7 5 5 2 1
  Shaw   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Sleater   2.0 3 2 2 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
7
7
3
2
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Urban  W (2-2) 8.0 10 2 1 1 4
  Morgan  SV (7) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
2
1
1
4

  E–Hunter (11), Urban (1).  DP–Kansas City 1. Martin-Hunter-Power.  2B–Detroit Groth 2 (4,off Urban 2); Bolling (18,off Urban)., Kansas City Power (8,off Bunning); Hunter (8,off Bunning)..  3B–Kansas City Hunter (3,off Bunning).  HR–Kansas City Held (14,1st inning off Bunning 1 on 2 out); Martin (8,7th inning off Sleater 0 on 2 out); Lopez (9,8th inning off Sleater 0 on 1 out)..  Team LOB–9.  Team–7.  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Eddie Rommel, 2B–Johnny Stevens, 3B–Larry Napp.  T–2:25.  A–4,882.
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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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