Baltimore Orioles vs Detroit Tigers
June 4, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 4, 1955 at Briggs 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Baltimore Orioles 2, Detroit Tigers 5

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Diering cf 3 0 0 0
Abrams lf 4 0 0 1
Waitkus 1b 3 0 1 0
Evers rf 4 0 0 0
Smith c 4 0 0 0
Young 2b 3 0 0 0
Cox 3b,ss 3 1 1 1
Miranda ss 2 1 1 0
  Triandos ph 1 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
Byrd p 2 0 0 0
  Moss ph 1 0 1 0
  Pyburn pr,3b 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 4 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Malmberg 2b 3 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 2 1 1 1
Phillips 1b 4 1 2 1
Boone 3b 4 1 2 1
Delsing lf 3 0 0 0
Wilson c 4 1 1 2
Hatfield ss 2 1 1 0
Lary p 2 0 0 0
Totals 28 5 8 5
Baltimore 001 010 000241
Detroit 001 004 00x581
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Byrd  L(3-2) 7.0 8 5 5 5 2
  Johnson   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
5
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W(5-5) 9.0 4 2 1 2 4
  Houtteman   2.2 3 1 1 1 2
  Wight   1.0 2 2 1 0 0
  Narleski   2.0 7 6 6 4 0
Totals
14.2
22
16
12
8
7

  E–Cox (3), Wilson (3).  DP–Baltimore 2. Cox-Young-Waitkus, Cox-Young-Waitkus, Detroit 2. Boone-Malmberg-J. Phillips, Lary-Malmberg-J. Phillips.  2B–Baltimore Miranda (6,off Lary), Detroit J. Phillips 2 (2,off Byrd 2).  HR–Baltimore Cox (3,5th inning off Lary 0 on 0 out), Detroit Wilson (2,6th inning off Byrd 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–3.  SH–Lary (2,off Byrd).  SF–Kaline (2,off Byrd).  Team–6.  CS–Hatfield (1,2nd base by Byrd/Smith); Hatfield (1,2nd base by Byrd/Smith).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Eddie Hurley.  T–2:01.  A–6,070.
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