Baltimore Orioles vs Cleveland Indians
April 29, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 29, 1955 at Cleveland Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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)
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Baltimore Orioles 5, Cleveland Indians 2

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Cox 3b,2b 4 0 0 0
Waitkus 1b 4 0 3 2
Diering cf 5 0 1 1
Woodling rf 4 1 1 0
Coan lf 3 1 1 0
Smith c 4 0 0 0
Young 2b 3 0 0 0
  Kennedy ph,3b 1 1 0 1
Miranda ss 3 2 2 1
Byrd p 2 0 0 0
  Triandos ph 1 0 0 0
  Abrams pr 0 0 0 0
  Moore p 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 8 5
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf 4 0 0 0
Avila 2b 4 0 3 0
Doby cf 4 0 0 0
Rosen 3b 4 0 0 0
Kiner lf 4 1 1 0
  Hegan c 0 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 2 0 1 0
  Altobelli 1b 0 0 0 0
Strickland ss 2 1 1 1
  Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0
Naragon c 3 0 0 0
  Pope lf 1 0 0 0
Garcia p 3 0 1 1
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
  Mossi p 0 0 0 0
  Houtteman p 0 0 0 0
  Philley ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Baltimore 000 001 004580
Cleveland 020 000 000281
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Byrd   7.0 7 2 2 3 3
  Moore  W(1-2) 2.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
3
4
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Garcia  L(1-3) 8.0 6 3 3 3 5
  Narleski   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Mossi   0.1 1 2 0 1 1
  Houtteman   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
5
3
4
6

  E–Strickland (2), Strickland (2).  DP–Baltimore 1. Strickland-Wertz, Cleveland 1. Strickland-Wertz.  2B–Baltimore Waitkus (1,off Garcia); Woodling (4,off Garcia)., Cleveland Wertz (3,off Byrd).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Strickland (2,off Byrd).  Team–8.  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–2:34.  A–9,014.
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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."

     

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