Los Angeles Angels vs Kansas City Athletics
June 16, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 16, 1961 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Athletics defeated the Los Angeles Angels 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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Los Angeles Angels 0, Kansas City Athletics 4

Los Angeles Angels ab   r   h rbi
Pearson cf 4 0 0 0
Bridges 2b 3 0 0 0
  Kluszewski ph 1 0 0 0
Wagner lf 2 0 0 0
Bilko 1b 4 0 1 0
Thomas rf 4 0 1 0
Yost 3b 1 0 0 0
Sadowski c 2 0 0 0
  Averill ph,c 1 0 0 0
Hamlin ss 3 0 1 0
McBride p 1 0 0 0
  Moeller p 0 0 0 0
  Hunt ph 1 0 0 0
  Kline p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 0 3 0
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Howser ss 5 0 0 0
Stephens cf 3 0 0 0
Lumpe 2b 3 1 2 0
Covington lf 3 1 0 0
  Bauer ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Siebern 1b 3 1 1 1
Johnson rf 3 1 1 0
Bertoia 3b 4 0 1 2
Pignatano c 1 0 1 1
Krausse p 3 0 2 0
Totals 29 4 8 4
Los Angeles 000 000 000031
Kansas City 000 103 00x481
  Los Angeles Angels IP H R ER BB SO
McBride  L (5-5) 6.1 7 4 4 4 1
  Moeller   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Kline   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
4
4
4
1
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Krausse  W (1-0) 9.0 3 0 0 5 6
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
5
6

  E–McBride (2), Howser (15).  DP–Los Angeles 1, Kansas City 4.  2B–Kansas City Siebern (11,off McBride).  SH–Krausse (1,off McBride); Lumpe (2,off McBride).  SF–Pignatano (1,off McBride).  HBP–Pignatano (1,by Kline).  IBB–Siebern (1,by McBride).  Team–9.  CS–Yost (1,2nd base by Krausse/Pignatano).  HBP–Kline (1,Pignatano).  IBB–McBride (2,Siebern).  U-HP–Al Smith, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Nestor Chylak.  T–2:14.  A–25,869.
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