Cleveland Indians vs New York Yankees
August 20, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 20, 1958 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees 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 1, New York Yankees 7

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Moran 2b,ss 5 0 1 1
Vernon 1b 4 0 1 0
Power 3b,2b 5 0 2 0
Nixon c 4 0 0 0
Minoso lf 4 0 1 0
Colavito rf 4 0 0 0
Held cf 1 0 0 0
  Ferrarese p 0 0 0 0
  Avila ph 1 0 1 0
  Jackson 3b 0 0 0 0
Hunter ss 3 0 0 0
  Wertz ph 1 0 0 0
  Martin p 0 0 0 0
Bell p 2 0 1 0
  Geiger ph,cf 2 1 1 0
Totals 36 1 8 1
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
McDougald 2b 5 0 0 0
Lumpe 3b 3 0 1 0
  Carey 3b 0 0 0 0
Mantle cf 3 2 0 0
Berra rf 4 3 3 3
  Bauer rf 0 0 0 0
Siebern lf 3 0 1 0
Howard c 4 1 2 1
Throneberry 1b 3 1 0 0
Kubek ss 4 0 1 1
Ditmar p 4 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 8 5
Cleveland 000 000 100181
New York 000 102 04x781
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Bell  L (7-8) 6.0 5 3 3 2 3
  Ferrarese   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Martin   1.0 3 4 2 2 2
Totals
8.0
8
7
5
4
6
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ditmar  W (9-4) 9.0 8 1 1 1 4
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
1
4

  E–Jackson (1), Lumpe (10).  2B–Cleveland Power (28,off Ditmar); Geiger (3,off Ditmar)., New York Howard (18,off Martin).  HR–New York Berra 2 (19,4th inning off Bell 0 on 0 out,6th inning off Bell 1 on 1 out).  HBP–Held 2 (6,by Ditmar 2).  Team LOB–11.  Team–6.  SB–Minoso (12,2nd base off Ditmar/Howard).  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Eddie Rommel.  T–2:15.  A–18,584.
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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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