Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
April 14, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 14, 1959 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 1, Cleveland Indians 8

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 3 0 0 0
Bridges ss 4 0 2 0
Kuenn cf 4 0 0 0
Harris 1b 4 1 1 1
Kaline rf 4 0 1 0
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Groth lf 3 0 1 0
Wilson c 3 0 0 0
Bunning p 1 0 0 0
  Davie p 0 0 0 0
  Alvarez ph 1 0 0 0
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
  Zernial ph 1 0 0 0
  Susce p 0 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 5 1
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Piersall cf 4 0 0 0
Martin 2b 5 0 0 0
Minoso lf 2 2 1 1
Colavito rf 3 1 1 0
Nixon c 2 1 1 0
Power 1b 3 1 0 0
Held 3b 4 2 2 6
Strickland ss 3 1 1 1
Score p 4 0 1 0
Totals 30 8 7 8
Detroit 000 000 100150
Cleveland 000 400 04x871
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning  L (0-1) 4.0 5 4 4 2 3
  Davie   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
  Morgan   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Susce   0.1 1 3 3 1 0
  Narleski   0.2 1 1 1 2 0
Totals
8.0
7
8
8
6
6
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  W (1-0) 9.0 5 1 1 1 9
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
1
9

  E–Score (1).  HR–Detroit Harris (1,7th inning off Score 0 on 1 out), Cleveland Minoso (1,4th inning off Bunning 0 on 0 out); Held 2 (2,4th inning off Bunning 1 on 2 out,8th inning off Narleski 3 on 1 out); Strickland (1,4th inning off Bunning 0 on 2 out)..  Team LOB–5.  SH–Nixon (1,off Susce).  HBP–Minoso (1,by Susce).  Team–6.  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Eddie Rommel.  T–2:40.  A–33,098.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook