Detroit Tigers vs Kansas City Athletics
September 1, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 1, 1958 at Municipal Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 5, Kansas City Athletics 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Groth cf 4 1 2 1
Veal ss 5 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 2 1 0
Harris 1b 4 0 2 2
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Bolling 2b 4 2 2 2
Martin 3b 4 0 0 0
Wilson c 3 0 0 0
Foytack p 3 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 8 5
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Martyn rf 3 0 0 0
Herzog lf 4 0 0 0
Lopez 2b 4 1 1 0
Maris cf 3 0 1 1
Ward 1b 3 0 1 0
Smith 3b 3 0 1 0
House c 3 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 2 0 0 0
Urban p 1 0 0 0
  Daley p 1 0 0 0
  Simpson ph 1 0 0 0
  Garver p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 4 1
Detroit 100 121 000580
Kansas City 000 100 000141
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  W (11-11) 9.0 4 1 1 2 4
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
2
4
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Urban  L (8-10) 4.2 5 4 3 2 3
  Daley   3.1 2 1 1 1 0
  Garver   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
5
4
3
4

  E–Smith (6).  DP–Detroit 1. Smith-Ward.  2B–Detroit Harris 2 (16,off Urban 2).  HR–Detroit F. Bolling 2 (12,4th inning off Urban 0 on 1 out,6th inning off Daley 0 on 0 out); Groth (2,5th inning off Urban 0 on 1 out)..  Team LOB–6.  CS–Martyn (4,2nd base by Foytack/Wilson).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:07.  A–8,264.
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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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