Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
September 28, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 28, 1958 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Detroit Tigers 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Detroit Tigers 2, Cleveland Indians 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 2b 3 0 1 0
Kuenn cf 4 1 2 0
Kaline rf 4 1 2 2
  Groth rf 0 0 0 0
Harris 1b 4 0 0 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Martin 3b 4 0 0 0
Wilson c 4 0 0 0
Veal ss 3 0 0 0
Bunning p 1 0 0 0
  Cicotte p 0 0 0 0
  Hazle ph 1 0 0 0
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
  Aguirre p 0 0 0 0
  Susce p 0 0 0 0
  Osborne ph 1 0 0 0
  Lee p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 6 2
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 5 1 1 0
Power 3b,1b 4 0 1 0
Minoso lf 2 1 0 0
Colavito rf 2 2 1 2
Doby cf 4 1 0 1
Wertz 1b 4 1 2 0
  Harrell 3b 0 0 0 0
Nixon c 4 0 3 2
Held ss 3 0 1 1
Bell p 4 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 9 6
Detroit 000 002 000260
Cleveland 010 210 20x691
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning  L (14-12) 3.2 4 3 3 2 0
  Cicotte   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Morgan   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Aguirre   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Susce   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Lee   2.0 1 2 2 1 0
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
4
1
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Bell  W (12-10) 9.0 6 2 2 1 3
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
1
3

  E–Held (7).  DP–Detroit 1. Veal-F. Bolling-Harris, Cleveland 1. Avila-Wertz.  PB–Wilson (9).  2B–Detroit Maxwell (14,off Bell).  HR–Detroit Kaline (16,6th inning off Bell 1 on 0 out), Cleveland Colavito (41,7th inning off Lee 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–5.  HBP–Minoso (15,by Lee).  IBB–Colavito (6,by Aguirre).  Team–7.  SB–Held (1,2nd base off Lee/Wilson).  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–Red Flaherty, 2B–Eddie Rommel, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–2:34.  A–7,798.
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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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