Kansas City Athletics vs Cleveland Indians
August 9, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1958 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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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Kansas City Athletics 1, Cleveland Indians 3

Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Tuttle cf 3 0 0 0
Maris rf 4 0 3 1
Lopez 3b 4 0 0 0
Cerv lf 3 0 1 0
Smith 1b 4 0 1 0
House c 4 0 0 0
DeMaestri ss 3 0 0 0
  Simpson ph 1 0 0 0
Baxes 2b 2 1 0 0
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
Terry p 2 0 0 0
  Tomanek p 0 0 0 0
  Martyn ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 5 1
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 2 2 1 1
Vernon 1b 4 0 1 1
Power 3b 3 0 0 0
Nixon c 4 0 1 1
Minoso lf 3 0 1 0
Doby cf 3 0 0 0
Colavito rf 3 0 0 0
Hunter ss 3 1 1 0
Bell p 2 0 0 0
Totals 27 3 5 3
Kansas City 010 000 000151
Cleveland 100 001 01x350
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Terry  L (7-9) 7.0 5 3 3 1 5
  Tomanek   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
5
3
3
2
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Bell  W (6-5) 9.0 5 1 1 4 6
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
4
6

  E–Terry (3).  DP–Kansas City 2. Baxes-DeMaestri-Smith, Baxes-DeMaestri-Smith, Cleveland 1. Hunter-Avila-Vernon.  2B–Cleveland Minoso (20,off Terry); Avila (18,off Terry); Hunter (8,off Terry).  HBP–Cerv (2,by Bell); Baxes (3,by Bell).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Bell (3,off Terry); Avila (8,off Terry).  IBB–Power (1,by Tomanek).  Team–4.  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Eddie Rommel, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:12.  A–4,893.
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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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