Cleveland Indians vs Boston Red Sox
June 5, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 5, 1958 at Fenway Park. 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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Cleveland Indians 3, Boston Red Sox 5

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 5 0 0 0
Maris cf 3 1 1 0
Minoso lf 2 0 2 1
Colavito rf 4 0 0 0
Porter 1b 2 0 0 0
  Ward 1b 2 0 0 0
Carrasquel 3b 4 0 1 0
  Geiger pr 0 0 0 0
Harrell ss 3 1 0 0
Brown c 4 1 3 2
  Moran pr 0 0 0 0
Bell p 1 0 0 0
  Wilhelm p 1 0 0 0
  Doby ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 3
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Buddin ss 4 0 1 0
Runnels 2b 3 0 0 0
Williams lf 4 0 2 0
  Stephens pr,lf 0 1 0 0
Gernert 1b 2 3 1 1
Malzone 3b 3 0 1 0
Jensen rf 4 1 1 3
White c 4 0 1 1
Piersall cf 4 0 1 0
Smith p 1 0 0 0
  Fornieles p 2 0 0 0
  Kiely p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 5
Cleveland 021 000 000370
Boston 000 102 02x580
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Bell   5.1 6 3 3 2 5
  Wilhelm  L (2-2) 2.2 2 2 2 1 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
3
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Smith   3.2 4 3 3 3 2
  Fornieles  W (3-2) 4.2 3 0 0 2 2
  Kiely  SV (4) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
5
5

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2. Malzone-Runnels-Gernert, Buddin-Runnels-Gernert.  2B–Cleveland Minoso 2 (9,off Smith 2); Maris (4,off Fornieles)., Boston Buddin (5,off Bell).  3B–Boston Williams (1,off Bell).  HR–Cleveland Brown (5,2nd inning off Smith 1 on 2 out), Boston Gernert (10,4th inning off Bell 0 on 0 out); Jensen (11,6th inning off Bell 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Malzone (2,off Wilhelm).  Team–6.  U-HP–Frank Tabacchi, 1B–Joe Paparella, 2B–Eddie Hurley, 3B–Ed Runge.  T–2:38.  A–4,129.
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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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