Baltimore Orioles vs Kansas City Athletics
August 24, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 24, 1957 at Municipal Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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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Baltimore Orioles 4, Kansas City Athletics 2

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Gardner 2b 4 0 1 1
Boyd 1b 4 0 2 0
Goodman 3b 4 1 0 0
Francona rf,lf 3 1 0 0
Nieman lf 4 0 2 2
  Busby cf 0 0 0 0
Pilarcik cf,rf 4 1 1 1
Triandos c 4 1 2 0
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Lehman p 2 0 0 0
  Brown p 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 8 4
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 4 0 1 0
Hunter 2b 4 1 1 0
Zernial lf 4 1 2 1
Cerv rf 3 0 1 0
Skizas 3b 3 0 0 0
Held cf 4 0 0 0
Smith c 3 0 2 1
DeMaestri ss 3 0 0 0
  McDermott ph 1 0 0 0
Garver p 0 0 0 0
  Portocarrero p 2 0 0 0
  Noren ph 1 0 0 0
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 7 2
Baltimore 210 000 001480
Kansas City 001 001 000271
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Lehman  W (4-3) 5.0 7 2 2 2 2
  Brown  SV (1) 4.0 0 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
3
5
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  L (5-11) 1.2 4 3 3 1 1
  Portocarrero   4.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Morgan   3.0 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
1
2

  E–Zernial (9).  DP–Baltimore 1. Lehman-Miranda-Boyd.  2B–Baltimore Nieman (15,off Garver), Kansas City Power (9,off Lehman); Zernial (15,off Lehman)..  HR–Baltimore Pilarcik (6,9th inning off Morgan 0 on 1 out).  SH–Miranda (7,off Garver).  Team LOB–4.  Team–7.  CS–Nieman (3,2nd base by Portocarrero/Smith).  U-HP–Joe Paparella, 1B–Eddie Hurley, 2B–Ed Runge, 3B–Frank Umont.
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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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