Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
May 18, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1955 at Memorial Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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 6, Baltimore Orioles 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 1 1 1
Tuttle cf 3 2 0 0
Kaline rf 5 2 2 1
Fain 1b 3 0 0 0
  Phillips B. pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Delsing lf 4 0 0 0
  Boone ph 0 0 0 1
  Phillips J. 1b 0 0 0 0
Hatfield 3b 5 0 3 3
Wilson c 5 0 1 0
Malmberg 2b 4 1 1 0
Lary p 4 0 3 0
Totals 38 6 11 6
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Cox 3b,2b 5 1 1 2
Waitkus 1b 4 0 1 1
Evers rf 2 0 0 0
  Moore p 1 0 0 0
  Schallock p 0 0 0 0
  Kennedy rf 1 0 0 0
Woodling lf,rf,lf 3 0 0 0
Smith c 4 0 0 0
Diering cf 3 0 1 0
Young 2b 2 0 0 0
  Abrams ph 1 0 0 0
  Pyburn 3b 1 0 1 0
Miranda ss 3 1 1 0
Rogovin p 1 0 0 0
  Coan ph,lf 2 1 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 5 3
Detroit 001 002 000 36114
Baltimore 000 003 000 0350
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W(3-4) 10.0 5 3 3 6 5
Totals
10.0
5
3
3
6
5
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Rogovin   6.0 7 3 3 1 3
  Moore  L(1-4) 3.1 3 3 3 2 0
  Schallock   0.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Johnson   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.0
11
6
6
4
3

  E–Kuenn 2 (8), Malmberg 2 (4).  DP–Detroit 3. Lary-Kuenn-Fain, Kuenn-Malmberg-Fain, Kuenn-Malmberg-J. Phillips, Baltimore 1. Diering-Waitkus.  2B–Detroit Malmberg (1,off Rogovin).  3B–Baltimore Cox (1,off Lary); Diering (1,off Lary).  SF–Boone (2,off Johnson).  IBB–Fain (2,by Schallock); Waitkus (2,by Lary).  Team LOB–7.  Team–6.  SB–Tuttle (4,3rd base off Rogovin/Smith); Kaline (5,2nd base off Rogovin/Smith).  CS–Rogovin (1,2nd base by Lary/Wilson); Abrams (3,2nd base by Lary/Wilson).  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Red Flaherty, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Charlie Berry.  T–2:50.  A–4,975.
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