Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
September 27, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 27, 1958 at Cleveland Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 5, Cleveland Indians 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 2b 4 1 1 1
Kuenn cf 3 1 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 3
Harris 1b 3 0 0 0
Maxwell lf 2 0 1 0
  Groth pr,lf 1 1 0 0
Martin 3b 3 0 0 0
Wilson c 4 0 1 0
Veal ss 2 0 0 0
  Zernial ph 1 0 1 1
  Bertoia pr,ss 1 1 0 0
Foytack p 2 0 0 0
  Francona ph 0 1 0 0
  Lary p 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 6 5
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 3 0 0 0
  Wertz ph 1 0 0 0
  Moran 2b 0 0 0 0
Nixon c 4 0 1 0
Power 1b 3 1 2 0
Minoso lf 4 0 1 0
Colavito rf 3 0 1 1
Doby cf 3 0 0 0
Jackson 3b 2 0 0 0
  Harrell pr,3b 0 0 0 0
  Vernon ph 1 0 0 0
Hunter ss 3 0 0 0
  Naragon ph 1 0 0 0
McLish p 2 0 0 0
  Grant p 0 0 0 0
  Woodeshick p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Detroit 000 000 050560
Cleveland 000 100 000150
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  W (15-13) 7.0 3 1 1 4 5
  Lary  SV (1) 2.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
4
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
McLish  L (16-8) 7.2 4 4 4 2 1
  Grant   0.0 1 1 1 2 0
  Woodeshick   1.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
5
5
4
1

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Martin-Harris, Cleveland 1. Colavito-Power.  2B–Cleveland Colavito (26,off Foytack).  3B–Detroit Kaline (7,off Grant).  SH–Martin (13,off McLish); McLish (4,off Foytack).  Team LOB–4.  IBB–Doby (2,by Foytack).  Team–7.  SB–Wilson (10,2nd base off Woodeshick/Nixon).  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Johnny Stevens, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Eddie Rommel.  T–2:12.  A–3,652.
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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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