Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
April 26, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 26, 1958 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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 1, Cleveland Indians 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling F. 2b 4 0 0 0
Bolling M. ss 4 0 0 0
Kuenn cf 4 0 2 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Boone 1b 3 1 1 0
Maxwell lf 3 0 0 1
Bertoia 3b 2 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 0 1 0
Lary p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 1 0 0 0
  Spencer p 0 0 0 0
  Harris ph 1 0 0 0
  Valentinetti p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 4 1
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Maris rf 4 0 2 0
Geiger cf 3 1 0 0
Minoso lf 3 1 1 0
Vernon 1b 4 2 2 1
Nixon c 4 0 1 1
Carrasquel ss 4 0 2 2
Harrell 3b 4 0 0 0
Moran 2b 3 0 1 0
Grant p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 9 4
Detroit 000 010 000141
Cleveland 301 000 00x491
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  L (0-2) 4.0 7 4 3 1 2
  Spencer   3.0 2 0 0 1 1
  Valentinetti   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
4
3
2
4
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Grant  W (2-0) 9.0 4 1 1 2 5
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
2
5

  E–Boone (2), Vernon (1).  DP–Detroit 1. F. Bolling-M. Bolling-Boone, Cleveland 2. Harrell-Moran-Vernon, Carrasquel-Moran-Vernon.  2B–Cleveland Vernon (2,off Lary); Moran (2,off Spencer).  3B–Detroit Boone (1,off Grant).  SF–Maxwell (1,off Grant).  HBP–Bertoia (1,by Grant).  Team LOB–5.  Team–6.  SB–Maris (1,2nd base off Lary/Hegan).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Eddie Rommel, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:07.  A–3,778.
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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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