Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians
May 20, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1958 at Cleveland Stadium. The Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 6, Cleveland Indians 1

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Buddin ss 5 0 0 0
Runnels 2b 3 1 1 2
Williams lf 5 2 1 1
  Stephens lf 0 0 0 0
Gernert 1b 5 1 2 0
Malzone 3b 4 0 2 1
Jensen rf 4 0 3 1
Berberet c 4 0 0 0
Piersall cf 3 2 1 1
Smith p 3 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 10 6
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Harrell ss 4 0 0 0
Avila 2b 4 0 0 0
Minoso lf 3 0 1 0
Ward 3b 3 0 1 1
Colavito rf 2 0 0 0
Brown c 4 0 1 0
Vernon 1b 3 0 0 0
Maris cf 3 0 0 0
Narleski p 1 0 0 0
  Kelly p 0 0 0 0
  Moran ph 0 1 0 0
  Garcia p 0 0 0 0
  Porter ph 1 0 0 0
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
  Carrasquel ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 3 1
Boston 004 011 0006100
Cleveland 000 010 000130
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Smith  W (3-0) 9.0 3 1 1 9 5
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
9
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Narleski  L (5-3) 2.2 5 4 4 1 2
  Kelly   2.1 2 1 1 1 1
  Garcia   2.0 2 1 1 3 1
  Wilhelm   2.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
10
6
6
6
5

  E–None.  DP–Cleveland 1. Harrell-Avila-Vernon.  PB–Brown (5).  2B–Boston Gernert (7,off Narleski).  HR–Boston Runnels (1,3rd inning off Narleski 1 on 2 out); Williams (4,3rd inning off Narleski 0 on 2 out); Piersall (3,6th inning off Garcia 0 on 0 out).  HBP–Runnels (2,by Kelly).  Team LOB–10.  SH–Avila (6,off Smith).  SF–Ward (1,off Smith).  Team–11.  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:44.  A–8,864.
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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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