Cleveland Indians vs Kansas City Athletics
May 30, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 30, 1958 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Athletics 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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Cleveland Indians 6, Kansas City Athletics 7

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Harrell ss 4 1 1 1
Avila 2b 4 0 1 0
Minoso lf 4 0 1 0
Ward 3b 4 1 1 0
Doby cf 4 1 1 0
Vernon 1b 4 2 1 3
Colavito rf 4 1 2 2
  Grant pr 0 0 0 0
Brown c 3 0 0 0
  Maris ph 1 0 0 0
Tomanek p 0 0 0 0
  Kelly p 2 0 1 0
  Geiger ph 1 0 0 0
  Lemon p 0 0 0 0
  Nixon ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 9 6
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Baxes 2b 4 1 2 0
Tuttle rf 2 2 1 0
Lopez 3b 3 1 0 0
Cerv lf 3 1 1 4
  Martyn lf 0 0 0 0
Power 1b 4 1 2 0
Chiti c 4 1 2 2
Held cf 3 0 0 0
DeMaestri ss 2 0 0 0
Garver p 3 0 0 0
  Dickson p 0 0 0 0
  Maas p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 7 8 6
Cleveland 021 000 003690
Kansas City 213 001 00x781
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Tomanek   0.0 1 2 2 3 0
  Kelly  L (0-2) 6.0 5 5 5 2 4
  Lemon   2.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
7
7
5
4
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  W (7-1) 8.0 7 5 4 0 6
  Dickson   0.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Maas  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
6
5
0
6

  E–None.  DP–Cleveland 4. Harrell-Avila-Vernon, Kelly-Harrell-Vernon, Harrell-Avila-Vernon, Avila-Harrell-Vernon.  HR–Cleveland Colavito (5,2nd inning off Garver 1 on 1 out); Harrell (4,3rd inning off Garver 0 on 0 out); Vernon (4,9th inning off Dickson 2 on 0 out).  Team LOB–3.  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Frank Tabacchi, 2B–Joe Paparella, 3B–Eddie Hurley.  T–2:26.  A–14,224.
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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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