Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians
May 5, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 5, 1957 at Cleveland Stadium. The Boston Red Sox 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

Boston Red Sox 5, Cleveland Indians 1

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Piersall cf 4 1 1 0
Klaus ss 4 0 0 0
Williams lf 1 1 1 0
  Stephens lf 2 0 0 0
Vernon 1b 4 0 0 0
  Zauchin 1b 0 0 0 0
Jensen rf 4 2 2 1
Malzone 3b 4 1 3 1
Lepcio 2b 3 0 2 2
White c 4 0 1 0
Nixon p 4 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 10 4
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 4 0 0 0
  Tomanek p 0 0 0 0
  Colavito ph 1 0 1 0
Woodling lf 5 0 1 0
Smith 3b 4 0 2 0
Wertz 1b 4 1 2 0
Maris rf 4 0 2 1
Busby cf 4 0 1 0
Nixon c 4 0 2 0
  Raines pr 0 0 0 0
Lemon p 1 0 0 0
  Pitula p 0 0 0 0
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
  McLish p 0 0 0 0
  Strickland ph,2b 2 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 3 0 1 0
  Altobelli ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 1 12 1
Boston 400 010 0005100
Cleveland 000 000 0101121
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nixon  W (2-0) 9.0 12 1 1 0 6
Totals
9.0
12
1
1
0
6
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L (1-3) 2.0 4 4 0 3 0
  Pitula   2.0 0 0 0 2 1
  McLish   3.0 6 1 1 0 0
  Tomanek   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
5
1
5
2

  E–Smith (1).  DP–Boston 3. Avila-Carrasquel-Wertz, Smith-Nixon-Wertz, Smith-Avila-Wertz.  2B–Boston Malzone (9,off Lemon).  HBP–Piersall (1,by Lemon); Williams (1,by Pitula).  IBB–Lepcio (1,by Pitula).  Team LOB–9.  CS–White (1,2nd base by McLish/Nixon).  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Eddie Rommel.  T–2:32.
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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."