Cleveland Indians vs Kansas City Royals
April 23, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 23, 1971 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Cleveland Indians and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Cleveland Indians 2, Kansas City Royals 5

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Lowenstein 2b 4 0 0 0
Foster rf,lf 4 0 0 0
Pinson cf 4 0 0 0
Fosse c 4 0 2 0
Nettles 3b 4 0 0 0
Harrelson 1b 4 0 0 0
  Mingori p 0 0 0 0
Uhlaender lf,rf 3 2 2 0
Brown ss 4 0 1 0
McDowell p 2 0 2 1
  Colbert p 0 0 0 0
  Hodge ph 1 0 1 1
  Machemehl p 0 0 0 0
  Hinton 1b 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 8 2
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Patek ss 4 0 1 3
Rojas 2b 4 0 0 0
Piniella lf 5 0 0 0
Oliver 1b 3 1 1 0
Paepke rf 4 1 1 0
Schaal 3b 3 1 1 0
Kirkpatrick cf 1 2 0 0
May c 3 0 0 1
Drago p 0 0 0 1
  Burgmeier p 0 0 0 0
  Hopkins ph 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 0 0 0 0
  Abernathy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 5 4 5
Cleveland 001 000 100280
Kansas City 000 300 02x541
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
McDowell  L (0-3) 5.1 1 3 3 9 4
  Colbert   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Machemehl   1.1 2 2 2 1 2
  Mingori   0.2 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
4
5
5
11
6
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Drago  W (3-1) 7.1 8 2 2 1 3
  Burgmeier  SV (1) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Abernathy   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
1
3

  E–Paepke (2).  DP–Kansas City 1.  3B–Kansas City Schaal (2,off Machemehl).  SH–Drago (3,off Colbert).  IBB–Kirkpatrick (2,by Machemehl).  SB–Uhlaender (1,2nd base off Drago/May).  IBB–Machemehl (3,Kirkpatrick).  U-HP–Bill Haller, 1B–Jake O'Donnell, 2B–Frank Umont, 3B–Lou DiMuro.  T–2:43.  A–7,696.
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