Baltimore Orioles vs Chicago White Sox
May 1, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 1, 1955 at Comiskey Park I. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox 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 9, Chicago White Sox 8

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Cox 3b,2b 4 2 1 0
Diering cf 6 0 1 1
Kennedy rf 6 0 2 2
Evers lf 3 0 0 0
  Woodling ph,lf 1 2 1 0
Smith c 5 2 2 2
Triandos 1b 5 2 4 1
  Coan pr 0 0 0 0
  Waitkus 1b 0 0 0 0
Young 2b 4 0 0 0
  Moss ph 1 0 0 0
  Byrd p 0 0 0 0
Miranda ss 6 1 1 0
Coleman p 2 0 2 1
  McDonald p 1 0 0 0
  Maxwell ph 1 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
  Moore p 1 0 0 0
  Ferrarese p 0 0 0 0
  Alexander p 0 0 0 0
  Pyburn ph,3b 1 0 1 2
Totals 47 9 15 9
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Carrasquel ss 5 1 1 0
Fox 2b 5 0 1 0
Minoso lf 5 1 1 0
Nieman rf 4 0 1 2
Rivera cf 5 1 1 0
Dropo 1b 6 2 3 2
Lollar c 4 1 2 1
  Groth pr 0 0 0 0
  Courtney c 1 0 1 1
Jok 3b 2 1 1 1
  Kell 3b 2 1 2 1
Gray p 0 0 0 0
  Dorish p 1 0 0 0
  Martin p 1 0 0 0
  Chakales p 1 0 0 0
  Trucks p 0 0 0 0
  Marshall ph 1 0 1 0
  McGhee pr 0 0 0 0
  Keegan p 0 0 0 0
  Harshman p 1 0 0 0
Totals 44 8 15 8
Baltimore 020 002 120 029150
Chicago 100 202 011 018151
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Coleman   3.1 3 3 3 2 0
  McDonald   2.2 4 2 2 1 1
  Johnson   1.1 3 1 1 1 0
  Moore   1.2 3 1 1 0 0
  Ferrarese   0.2 0 0 0 1 1
  Alexander  W(1-0) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Byrd  SV(1) 1.0 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
11.0
15
8
8
6
2
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Gray   1.2 3 2 2 1 1
  Dorish   1.1 3 0 0 2 1
  Martin   2.2 2 2 0 1 0
  Chakales   1.1 1 1 1 1 1
  Trucks   1.0 3 2 2 0 1
  Keegan  L(0-1) 2.0 2 2 2 1 0
  Harshman   1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
11.0
15
9
7
6
6

  E–Jok (1).  2B–Baltimore Coleman (1,off Gray); Miranda (2,off Martin); Smith (1,off Trucks); Triandos (1,off Keegan)., Chicago Courtney (1,off Byrd).  3B–Chicago Minoso (1,off Moore).  HR–Baltimore Triandos (1,7th inning off Chakales 0 on 0 out), Chicago Dropo (5,4th inning off Coleman 1 on 0 out); Lollar (6,6th inning off McDonald 0 on 1 out); Jok (1,6th inning off McDonald 0 on 1 out); Kell (2,8th inning off Johnson 0 on 1 out)..  HBP–Woodling (1,by Keegan); Lollar (1,by Coleman).  IBB–Woodling (3,by Chakales); Kell (2,by Byrd).  Team LOB–12.  SH–Keegan (1,off Ferrarese).  SF–Nieman 2 (2,off Coleman,off Moore).  Team–13.  SB–Minoso (6,2nd base off Coleman/Smith).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Eddie Hurley.  T–4:29.
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