Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
August 23, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 23, 1958 at Memorial Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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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Detroit Tigers 5, Baltimore Orioles 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn cf 5 1 2 0
Veal ss 5 0 1 1
Bolling 2b 5 0 1 0
Harris 1b 4 1 1 1
Kaline rf 4 1 1 0
Maxwell lf 3 0 1 2
  Groth ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Martin 3b 3 1 1 0
Wilson c 3 1 1 1
Foytack p 2 0 1 0
  Cicotte p 2 0 1 0
Totals 37 5 11 5
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf 4 0 1 1
Boyd 1b 4 0 2 0
Nieman lf 3 0 0 0
Triandos c 4 0 0 0
Pilarcik rf 4 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 4 0 1 0
Gardner 2b 4 1 2 0
Miranda ss 3 0 1 0
Portocarrero p 1 0 0 0
  Woodling ph 1 0 0 0
  Beamon p 0 0 0 0
  Ginsberg ph 0 0 0 0
  Lehman p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 33 1 8 1
Detroit 300 100 0105110
Baltimore 000 010 000182
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack   4.2 6 1 1 1 1
  Cicotte  W (2-3) 4.1 2 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
3
2
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Portocarrero  L (12-9) 5.0 8 4 1 1 0
  Beamon   2.0 2 0 0 0 0
  Lehman   2.0 1 1 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
11
5
1
1
1

  E–Nieman (3), Robinson (20).  DP–Detroit 1. Veal-F. Bolling-Harris, Baltimore 1. Robinson-Gardner-Boyd.  2B–Detroit Kaline (30,off Portocarrero); Martin (18,off Lehman)..  SF–Wilson (2,off Lehman).  Team LOB–7.  Team–8.  SB–Maxwell (5,2nd base off Portocarrero/Triandos).  U-HP–Frank Umont, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:26.  A–9,172.
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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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