Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
June 21, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 21, 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 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hatfield 2b,ss 3 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 3 1 1 0
Kaline rf 4 1 0 0
Torgeson 1b 4 2 1 1
Delsing lf 4 0 2 2
Boone 3b 3 0 1 0
House c 3 0 0 0
  Phillips pr 0 0 0 0
  Wilson c 0 0 0 0
Bertoia ss 3 0 0 0
  Kuenn ph 0 0 0 1
  Malmberg 2b 0 0 0 0
Garver p 4 0 1 0
Totals 31 4 6 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 4 0 1 0
  Brewer pr 0 1 0 0
  Joost 2b 0 0 0 0
Klaus ss 4 0 1 0
Williams lf 3 2 1 3
Jensen rf 4 1 1 0
Zauchin 1b 4 0 3 0
White c 4 0 0 0
Hatton 3b 3 0 1 2
Piersall cf 3 0 1 0
Nixon p 2 0 0 0
  Hurd p 0 0 0 0
  Stephens ph 1 1 1 0
  Kinder p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 10 5
Detroit 010 000 030460
Boston 000 000 23x5101
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  L(5-8) 8.0 10 5 5 1 2
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
1
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nixon   7.0 6 4 4 5 4
  Hurd  W(2-3) 1.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Kinder  SV(8) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
6
4
4
7
5

  E–Jensen (4).  DP–Detroit 2. Boone-Hatfield-Torgeson, Boone-Hatfield-Torgeson, Boston 1. White-Goodman.  2B–Detroit Delsing (9,off Nixon), Boston Piersall (14,off Garver); Zauchin (6,off Garver).  HR–Boston Williams (9,8th inning off Garver 2 on 1 out).  SH–Boone (1,off Hurd).  SF–Kuenn (3,off Hurd).  IBB–House (3,by Hurd).  Team LOB–9.  Team–4.  CS–Tuttle (3,2nd base by Nixon/White).  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Charlie Berry, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–2:45.  A–25,332.
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