The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 23, 2006 at Kauffman Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Kansas City Royals 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)

E –Garko (2). 2B –Cleveland Peralta (23,off de la Rosa); Luna 2 (3,off Wellemeyer,off Nelson); Gutierrez (5,off Wellemeyer); Michaels (23,off Gobble); Martinez (30,off Nelson); Garko (3,off Nelson), Kansas City Brown (32,off Davis); Sweeney (8,off Carmona); Shealy (3,off Carmona).. 3B –Cleveland Choo (1,off Burgos), Kansas City Gathright (3,off Byrd). HR –Cleveland Hafner (39,1st inning off de la Rosa 0 on 2 out); Boone (7,3rd inning off de la Rosa 0 on 1 out); Sizemore (19,3rd inning off de la Rosa 0 on 1 out)., Kansas City Sweeney (3,1st inning off Byrd 2 on 0 out); Grudzielanek (7,1st inning off Byrd 1 on 2 out).. SH –Michaels (1,off Sisco). SF –Michaels (5,off Wellemeyer). HBP –Hafner (6,by de la Rosa); Sizemore (11,by Sisco). IBB –Hafner (12,by Sisco). Team LOB –8. Team –11. SB –Teahen (9,3rd base off Cabrera/Martinez). U-HP –Tim McClelland, 1B –Fieldin Culbreth, 2B –Bill Welke, 3B –Marty Foster. T –4:00. A –12,671.

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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."