Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
August 29, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 29, 1957 at Briggs Stadium. The Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 6, Detroit Tigers 1

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Piersall cf 3 1 1 0
Klaus ss 4 1 2 1
Williams lf 1 0 0 0
  Stephens pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Malzone 3b 4 1 1 3
Jensen rf 5 0 1 2
Gernert 1b 4 0 1 0
Lepcio 2b 2 0 0 0
  Mauch 2b 0 0 0 0
Daley c 3 1 0 0
Brewer p 4 2 2 0
Totals 30 6 8 6
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 2b 4 0 1 1
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 0
Boone 1b 3 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Groth cf 4 0 1 0
House c 3 1 1 0
Finigan 3b 3 0 0 0
Maas p 0 0 0 0
  Small ph 1 0 0 0
  Byrd p 0 0 0 0
  Sleater p 0 0 0 0
  Shaw p 0 0 0 0
  Philley ph 1 0 1 0
  Stump p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 6 1
Boston 000 020 301680
Detroit 000 000 010160
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Brewer  W (15-11) 9.0 6 1 1 2 4
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Maas  L (9-11) 6.0 5 2 2 3 4
  Byrd   0.1 1 2 2 1 0
  Sleater   0.1 1 1 1 1 0
  Shaw   1.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Stump   1.0 1 1 1 2 0
Totals
9.0
8
6
6
8
4

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2. Klaus-Lepcio-Gernert, Malzone-Lepcio-Gernert, Detroit 2. Kuenn-Boone, Kuenn-Boone.  2B–Boston Jensen (23,off Sleater), Detroit Bolling (22,off Brewer).  SH–Piersall (5,off Byrd).  SF–Malzone (2,off Maas).  HBP–Lepcio (2,by Maas).  Team LOB–8.  Team–5.  CS–Stephens (1,2nd base by Stump/House).  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–Frank Umont, 3B–Joe Paparella.  T–2:45.  A–7,504.
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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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