Toronto Blue Jays vs Cleveland Indians May 12, 2008 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 12, 2008 at Progressive Field. The Toronto Blue Jays 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Cleveland Indians 0
Game played on Monday, May 12, 2008 at Progressive Field
Game played on Monday, May 12, 2008 at Progressive Field
Baseball Almanac Box Score
The Baseball Tonight crew broke down in great detail Asdrubal Cabrera's amazing unassisted triple play which took place in the fifth inning — watch the video below:
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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."
