Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox
May 8, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 8, 1955 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White 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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Detroit Tigers 0, Chicago White Sox 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 0 3 0
Hatfield 2b 3 0 0 0
Kaline rf 2 0 1 0
Fain 1b 3 0 0 0
Boone 3b 4 0 0 0
Delsing lf 4 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 2 0
House c 4 0 2 0
Lary p 3 0 1 0
  Wilson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 9 0
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Carrasquel ss 4 0 0 0
Fox 2b 4 1 1 0
Minoso lf 4 0 2 1
Kell 3b 3 0 1 0
Rivera cf,rf 4 0 2 0
Dropo 1b 4 0 0 0
Marshall rf 3 0 0 0
  Groth cf 0 0 0 0
Courtney c 3 0 1 0
Donovan p 2 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 7 1
Detroit 000 000 000091
Chicago 000 000 01x170
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  L(2-3) 8.0 7 1 1 2 3
Totals
8.0
7
1
1
2
3
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Donovan  W(3-1) 9.0 9 0 0 3 3
Totals
9.0
9
0
0
3
3

  E–Kuenn (4).  DP–Detroit 1. Kuenn-Hatfield-Fain, Chicago 3. Courtney-Kell, Fox-Carrasquel-Dropo, Carrasquel-Fox-Dropo.  2B–Detroit House (1,off Donovan).  3B–Chicago Fox (4,off Lary).  SH–Hatfield (4,off Donovan).  IBB–Kaline (2,by Donovan).  Team LOB–9.  Team–8.  SB–Minoso (8,2nd base off Lary/House).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Bill Grieve, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:12.  A–17,532.
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