Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 15, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 15, 1955 at Fenway Park. 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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Detroit Tigers 4, Boston Red Sox 10

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 1 3 2
Hatfield 2b 5 0 1 0
Kaline rf 3 0 1 1
Fain 1b 3 0 0 0
  Bertoia pr 0 0 0 0
  Phillips J. 1b 0 0 0 0
Boone 3b 4 0 1 0
Delsing lf 4 1 2 0
Tuttle cf 3 1 1 0
House c 4 0 1 0
Lary p 0 0 0 0
  Cristante p 1 0 0 0
  Maxwell ph 1 1 0 1
  Fletcher p 0 0 0 0
  Phillips B. ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 10 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 4 1 1 2
Stephens lf 4 1 2 0
Agganis 1b 5 1 2 3
Jensen rf 5 1 2 1
Joost ss 3 2 1 0
White c 3 1 1 1
Klaus 3b 3 2 3 2
Piersall cf 4 0 0 0
Sullivan p 3 1 0 0
Totals 34 10 12 9
Detroit 002 000 2004103
Boston 000 500 05x10120
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  L(2-4) 3.2 8 5 5 2 0
  Cristante   2.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Fletcher   2.0 3 5 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
12
10
6
4
1
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sullivan  W(4-4) 9.0 10 4 4 4 5
  Byrd   6.2 5 3 3 1 2
  Kretlow   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Johnson   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
17.1
18
9
9
8
9

  E–Kuenn 2 (6), Cristante (1).  DP–Detroit 1. Kuenn-Hatfield-Fain, Boston 1. Joost-Goodman-Agganis.  2B–Detroit Kuenn (8,off F. Sullivan), Boston Agganis (8,off Lary); Jensen (8,off Lary); Klaus (2,off Lary); Goodman (10,off Lary)..  3B–Boston Agganis (1,off Fletcher).  Team LOB–7.  SH–F. Sullivan (6,off Cristante); White (2,off Fletcher)..  Team–6.  SB–Tuttle (3,3rd base off F. Sullivan/White).  CS–Kaline (4,2nd base by F. Sullivan/White).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Bill Grieve, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:31.
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