Kansas City Athletics vs Boston Red Sox
September 17, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 17, 1957 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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

Kansas City Athletics 8, Boston Red Sox 9

Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 5 0 1 1
DeMaestri ss 5 2 2 0
Zernial lf 5 1 1 2
Cerv rf 5 1 2 1
Martyn cf 5 0 1 0
Lopez 3b 5 0 2 0
Smith c 4 2 2 1
Hunter 2b 4 2 2 2
Terry p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor p 3 0 1 0
  Burnette p 0 0 0 0
  Skizas ph 1 0 1 1
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
  Portocarrero p 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 8 15 8
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Piersall cf 4 2 1 0
Klaus ss 5 1 3 1
Vernon 1b 4 1 1 1
Malzone 3b 5 2 3 2
Jensen rf 5 1 2 3
Gernert lf 4 0 0 0
Aspromonte 2b 3 1 3 0
Daley c 4 0 2 0
Fornieles p 1 0 0 0
  Susce p 2 0 0 1
  Delock p 0 0 0 0
  Wall p 0 0 0 0
  Williams ph 1 1 1 1
  Chakales p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 9 16 9
Kansas City 200 003 1208152
Boston 400 111 02x9161
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Terry   0.2 4 4 4 1 0
  Taylor   5.0 8 3 3 2 2
  Burnette   1.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Morgan  L (9-7) 0.0 3 2 2 0 0
  Portocarrero   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
16
9
9
3
3
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Fornieles   1.0 6 2 2 0 1
  Susce   5.2 5 4 4 0 4
  Delock   0.2 4 2 1 0 0
  Wall  W (3-0) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Chakales  SV (3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
15
8
7
0
6

  E–DeMaestri (12), Zernial (12), Klaus (23).  DP–Kansas City 2. Lopez-Hunter-Power, Lopez-Hunter-Power.  2B–Kansas City DeMaestri (13,off Fornieles); Cerv 2 (14,off Susce 2), Boston Aspromonte (4,off Taylor); Malzone (31,off Taylor).  3B–Boston Vernon (1,off Terry); Malzone (5,off Terry)..  HR–Kansas City Zernial (23,1st inning off Fornieles 1 on 1 out); Hunter (8,6th inning off Susce 1 on 2 out)., Boston Jensen (21,1st inning off Terry 1 on 1 out); Williams (34,8th inning off Morgan 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–7.  Team–8.  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Joe Paparella, 3B–Eddie Hurley.  T–2:54.  A–12,084.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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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."