Detroit Tigers vs Kansas City Athletics
April 24, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 24, 1958 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
Bolling F. 2b 4 0 1 1
Bolling M. ss 3 0 1 0
Kuenn cf 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 3 0 0 0
  Skizas rf 1 0 0 0
Boone 1b 3 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 3 1 0 0
Bertoia 3b 4 0 1 0
Hegan c 4 1 0 0
Shaw p 2 0 2 1
  Valentinetti p 0 0 0 0
  Harris ph 1 0 1 0
  Presko p 0 0 0 0
  Zernial ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 7 2
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Baxes 2b 5 1 3 2
Tuttle rf 3 3 1 0
Lopez 3b 3 1 1 1
Power 1b 4 0 2 3
Cerv lf 4 0 1 1
Held cf 4 0 0 0
House c 4 2 2 0
DeMaestri ss 4 0 2 0
Burnette p 2 0 0 0
  Gorman p 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 7 12 7
Detroit 000 010 100272
Kansas City 200 021 11x7121
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Shaw  L (0-1) 4.1 5 4 4 2 3
  Valentinetti   1.2 2 1 1 0 0
  Presko   2.0 5 2 2 0 2
Totals
8.0
12
7
7
2
5
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Burnette  W (1-0) 6.1 6 2 1 3 1
  Gorman  SV (4) 2.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
2
1
3
1

  E–M. Bolling (1), Shaw (1), DeMaestri (1).  DP–Kansas City 2. Lopez-Power, DeMaestri-Baxes-Power.  2B–Detroit M. Bolling (1,off Burnette), Kansas City Cerv (4,off Shaw); Lopez (2,off Shaw); Power (1,off Shaw)..  3B–Kansas City Tuttle (1,off Presko).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Lopez (1,off Shaw); Burnette (1,off Valentinetti).  SF–Lopez (2,off Presko).  Team–8.  U-HP–Eddie Rommel, 1B–Johnny Stevens, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–John Rice.  T–2:16.  A–4,598.
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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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