Chicago White Sox vs Kansas City Athletics
May 12, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 12, 1958 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Athletics defeated the Chicago White Sox 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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Chicago White Sox 1, Kansas City Athletics 2

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Aparicio ss 5 0 0 0
Fox 2b 2 0 1 0
  Esposito ph,2b 3 0 0 0
Smith lf 5 0 2 0
Lollar c 3 0 0 0
Jackson 1b 3 0 0 0
  Beard pr,cf 0 0 0 0
Phillips 3b 4 1 1 0
Landis cf 3 0 1 0
  Torgeson ph,1b 2 0 0 0
Rivera rf 4 0 2 1
Moore p 4 0 0 0
  Mueller ph 1 0 0 0
  Staley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 1 7 1
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Baxes 2b 4 0 0 0
Tuttle rf 5 1 2 0
Lopez 3b 4 0 1 1
Power 1b 5 0 3 0
Cerv lf 4 0 0 0
Held cf 5 1 1 1
Chiti c 3 0 1 0
  Graff pr 0 0 0 0
  House c 1 0 0 0
DeMaestri ss 4 0 1 0
Kellner p 2 0 0 0
  Trucks p 0 0 0 0
  Martyn ph 0 0 0 0
  Dickson p 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 2 9 2
Chicago 010 000 000 00170
Kansas City 000 000 010 01290
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Moore   10.0 8 1 1 3 2
  Staley  L (0-2) 0.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
10.0
9
2
2
3
2
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Kellner   5.0 6 1 1 1 3
  Trucks   2.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Dickson  W (2-1) 4.0 0 0 0 3 4
Totals
11.0
7
1
1
4
8

  E–None.  3B–Kansas City Power (1,off Moore); Tuttle (2,off Moore)..  HR–Kansas City Held (2,11th inning off Staley 0 on 0 out).  SH–Phillips (2,off Dickson).  HBP–Lollar (3,by Dickson).  IBB–Rivera (1,by Dickson).  Team LOB–11.  SF–Lopez (3,off Moore).  Team–10.  U-HP–Jim Honochick, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Frank Umont, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–3:05.  A–8,238.
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