Kansas City Athletics vs Cleveland Indians
April 17, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 17, 1958 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Kansas City Athletics 2, Cleveland Indians 3

Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Baxes 2b 4 0 1 0
Tuttle rf 5 0 1 0
Lopez 3b 5 1 1 0
Power 1b 3 0 0 0
Cerv lf 4 1 2 2
Held cf 3 0 1 0
House c 4 0 0 0
DeMaestri ss 4 0 1 0
Maas p 4 0 1 0
Totals 36 2 8 2
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Carrasquel ss 3 0 1 0
Geiger cf 3 0 1 0
Minoso lf 4 1 1 0
Colavito 1b 4 0 1 1
Maris rf 3 0 1 0
Nixon c 4 0 0 0
  Hardy pr 0 1 0 0
Avila 3b,2b 3 0 1 0
  Doby ph 1 0 0 0
Harrell 2b 2 0 0 0
  Ward ph,3b 2 1 2 0
Grant p 3 0 0 0
  Vernon ph 1 0 1 2
Totals 33 3 9 3
Kansas City 100 001 000280
Cleveland 100 000 002391
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Maas  L (0-1) 8.2 9 3 3 3 3
Totals
8.2
9
3
3
3
3
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Grant  W (1-0) 9.0 8 2 2 3 5
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
3
5

  E–Avila (1).  DP–Kansas City 2. DeMaestri-Baxes-Power, Cerv-DeMaestri-Baxes.  2B–Kansas City Lopez (1,off Grant), Cleveland Colavito (1,off Maas); Vernon (1,off Maas).  HR–Kansas City Cerv (2,6th inning off Grant 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–10.  Team–7.  SB–Geiger (1,2nd base off Maas/House).  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Charlie Berry, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Red Flaherty.
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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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