Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
August 5, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 5, 1958 at Briggs 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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Cleveland Indians 6, Detroit Tigers 1

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 3 0 0 0
Vernon 1b 4 1 2 2
Power 3b 5 1 1 0
Nixon c 3 2 2 1
Minoso lf 4 1 1 0
Doby cf 4 0 3 1
  Held cf 0 0 0 0
Colavito rf 3 0 1 1
Hunter ss 4 0 0 0
McLish p 3 1 0 0
Totals 33 6 10 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn cf 4 0 1 0
Martin 3b 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 2 0
Harris 1b 4 0 0 0
Maxwell lf 3 1 2 1
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Wilson c 3 0 0 0
Veal ss 1 0 1 0
Susce p 0 0 0 0
  Cicotte p 2 0 0 0
  Hazle ph 1 0 0 0
  Fischer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 7 1
Cleveland 015 000 0006100
Detroit 000 010 000171
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
McLish  W (11-6) 9.0 7 1 1 3 2
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
3
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Susce  L (3-1) 2.1 6 6 5 2 2
  Cicotte   5.2 3 0 0 2 4
  Fischer   1.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
10
6
5
5
6

  E–Kaline (1).  DP–Cleveland 4. Hunter-Avila-Vernon, Power-Avila-Vernon, Hunter-Vernon, Avila-Hunter-Vernon, Detroit 1. Veal-F. Bolling-Harris.  2B–Cleveland Power (25,off Susce).  HR–Cleveland Vernon (8,3rd inning off Susce 1 on 1 out), Detroit Maxwell (7,5th inning off McLish 0 on 0 out).  SF–Colavito (3,off Cicotte).  Team LOB–6.  Team–5.  U–Eddie Rommel, Johnny Stevens, Larry Napp.  T–2:15.  A–24,923.
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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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