Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
May 4, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 4, 1955 at Briggs Stadium. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Boston Red Sox 3, Detroit Tigers 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 4 0 0 0
Agganis 1b 5 1 2 0
Throneberry lf 5 0 1 0
White c 4 0 0 0
Jensen rf 4 1 1 1
Lepcio 3b 5 1 1 1
Piersall cf 4 0 0 0
Klaus ss 5 0 1 1
Nixon p 4 0 1 0
  Kinder p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 3 7 3
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 1 1 0
Hatfield 2b 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 5 0 1 1
Fain 1b 4 1 1 0
  Phillips pr 0 0 0 0
Boone 3b 4 0 2 0
Delsing lf 5 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 5 0 1 1
House c 4 0 0 0
Lary p 4 0 1 0
Totals 40 2 8 2
Boston 000 100 100 01370
Detroit 011 000 000 00280
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nixon  W(4-1) 10.1 8 2 2 3 4
  Kinder  SV(3) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
11.0
8
2
2
3
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L(5-1) 7.2 6 8 8 5 6
  Narleski   1.1 4 3 3 1 3
Totals
9.0
17
14
14
9
15

  E–None.  DP–Boston 1. Goodman-Agganis.  PB–White (1).  2B–Boston Agganis (3,off Lary); Lepcio (7,off Lary)., Detroit Lary (2,off Nixon).  HR–Boston Jensen (4,4th inning off Lary 0 on 2 out).  SH–White (1,off Lary).  IBB–Jensen (1,by Lary).  Team LOB–8.  Team–8.  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Charlie Berry, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–2:44.  A–32,485.
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