Cleveland Indians vs Baltimore Orioles
September 15, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 15, 1957 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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 4, Baltimore Orioles 5

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Caffie rf,lf 7 1 3 1
Avila 2b 6 1 3 1
Woodling lf 5 0 2 1
  Smith lf,rf 2 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 7 0 1 0
Carrasquel ss 7 0 2 0
Williams cf,3b 7 0 1 0
Brown c 4 1 1 1
  Nixon ph,c 2 0 0 0
Strickland 3b 3 1 2 0
  Naragon ph 1 0 0 0
  Daley p 0 0 0 0
  Altobelli ph 1 0 0 0
  McLish p 1 0 0 0
Wynn p 3 0 1 0
  Maris ph,cf 4 0 1 0
Totals 60 4 17 4
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Gardner 2b 7 0 2 0
Boyd 1b 7 2 5 0
Goodman 3b 8 2 5 1
Nieman lf 2 0 0 0
  Zuverink p 2 0 0 0
  Robinson ph 1 0 0 0
  Lehman p 1 1 1 0
Pilarcik rf 5 0 2 1
Ginsberg c 7 0 2 2
Busby cf 6 0 0 0
Miranda ss 1 0 0 0
  Triandos ph 1 0 0 0
  Brideweser ss 5 0 0 0
Wight p 3 0 0 0
  Francona lf 4 0 0 0
Totals 60 5 17 4
Cleveland 002 100 001 000 000 04171
Baltimore 200 000 200 000 000 15175
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wynn   8.0 11 4 4 3 3
  Daley   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
  McLish  L (8-7) 6.0 4 1 0 6 3
Totals
15.0
17
5
4
9
6
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Wight   7.0 11 3 2 1 4
  Zuverink   6.0 5 1 1 3 3
  Lehman  W (7-3) 3.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
16.0
17
4
3
5
7

  E–Wertz (13).  TP–Cleveland 1. Carrasquel-Avila-Wertz.  2B–Cleveland Woodling (24,off Wight).  3B–Cleveland Maris (3,off Zuverink).  HR–Cleveland Brown (2,4th inning off Wight 0 on 2 out); Caffie (3,9th inning off Zuverink 0 on 2 out).  SH–Carrasquel (7,off Zuverink); McLish (3,off Lehman); Smith (8,off Lehman)..  IBB–Avila (2,by Wight); Nixon (7,by Zuverink); Caffie (1,by Zuverink)..  Team LOB–16.  CS–Williams (6,2nd base by Wight/Ginsberg).  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–4:42.
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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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