Cleveland Indians vs Kansas City Athletics
August 30, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 30, 1958 at Municipal 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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Cleveland Indians 8, Kansas City Athletics 6

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Vernon 1b 7 0 2 0
Power 2b 7 1 2 0
Doby cf 7 3 3 3
Minoso lf 7 2 3 1
Nixon c 5 1 2 0
Colavito rf 5 1 2 3
Jackson 3b 5 0 1 1
Moran ss 3 0 0 0
  Geiger ph 1 0 0 0
  Hunter ss 1 0 0 0
Grant p 2 0 0 0
  Harrell ph 0 0 0 0
  Mossi p 1 0 0 0
  Ferrarese p 0 0 0 0
  Avila ph 1 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
  Held ph 1 0 0 0
  Martin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 53 8 15 8
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Martyn rf 3 0 0 0
  Tuttle ph,cf 4 0 0 0
Maris cf,rf 7 0 1 0
Lopez 2b 6 1 1 2
Cerv lf 6 1 1 0
Simpson 1b 5 1 0 0
Smith 3b 5 2 3 1
Chiti c 5 0 3 2
DeMaestri ss 5 0 1 1
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
  Baxes ss 0 0 0 0
Garver p 2 1 2 0
  Tomanek p 0 0 0 0
  Carrasquel ph 1 0 0 0
  Herbert p 2 0 0 0
Totals 52 6 12 6
Cleveland 400 000 020 000 028150
Kansas City 020 020 020 000 006120
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Grant   6.0 4 4 4 5 3
  Mossi   1.2 5 2 2 0 2
  Ferrarese   2.1 1 0 0 2 2
  Narleski   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Martin  W (1-0) 2.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
14.0
12
6
6
8
8
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Garver   7.1 10 6 6 4 3
  Tomanek   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Herbert  L (4-7) 6.0 5 2 2 2 3
Totals
14.0
15
8
8
6
7

  E–None.  DP–Cleveland 1. Jackson-Power-Vernon.  PB–Chiti (13).  2B–Cleveland Minoso (22,off Garver); Nixon (15,off Garver); Power (33,off Herbert)., Kansas City Chiti (9,off Grant); Smith (12,off Ferrarese).  3B–Kansas City Smith (2,off Grant).  HR–Cleveland Colavito (32,1st inning off Garver 2 on 2 out); Doby 2 (10,8th inning off Garver 0 on 0 out,14th inning off Herbert 1 on 0 out)., Kansas City Lopez (14,5th inning off Grant 1 on 2 out).  SH–Nixon (3,off Herbert).  IBB–Colavito 2 (3,by Garver,by Herbert); Moran (1,by Garver).; Chiti (4,by Ferrarese).  Team LOB–10.  Team–12.  CS–Minoso (14,3rd base by Herbert/Chiti); Simpson (2,2nd base by Grant/Nixon).  U-HP–Jim Honochick, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Frank Umont, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–3:57.  A–12,784.
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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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