Baltimore Orioles vs Kansas City Athletics
July 14, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 14, 1955 at Municipal Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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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Baltimore Orioles 6, Kansas City Athletics 4

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Marsh 2b 5 0 0 0
Abrams rf 4 1 2 1
Philley lf 4 2 3 2
Triandos c,1b 4 1 1 0
Hale 1b 4 0 2 2
  Diering pr,cf 0 1 0 0
Pope cf 4 0 1 1
  Palica p 0 0 0 0
Causey 3b 4 0 1 0
Miranda ss 4 0 1 0
Moore p 2 0 0 0
  Nelson ph 0 1 0 0
  Smith c 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 11 6
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
DeMaestri ss 4 1 0 0
Finigan 2b 3 1 0 0
Zernial lf 4 0 2 1
Simpson cf 3 0 1 0
Power 1b 4 1 2 2
Wilson rf 4 0 0 0
Lopez 3b 4 1 1 1
Shantz c 3 0 0 0
  Slaughter ph 1 0 0 0
Ditmar p 3 0 0 0
  Gorman p 0 0 0 0
  Valo ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 6 4
Baltimore 000 100 0506112
Kansas City 200 200 000460
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Moore  W(4-7) 7.0 5 4 3 2 5
  Palica  SV(1) 2.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
6
4
3
2
7
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Ditmar  L(5-6) 7.2 10 6 6 1 5
  Gorman   1.1 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
6
6
1
7

  E–Hale (1), Causey (2).  DP–Kansas City 1. Billy Shantz-DeMaestri.  PB–Billy Shantz (1).  2B–Baltimore Hale (2,off Ditmar).  3B–Baltimore Hale (1,off Ditmar).  HR–Baltimore Philley (4,8th inning off Ditmar 1 on 2 out), Kansas City Power (12,4th inning off Moore 0 on 0 out); Lopez (5,4th inning off Moore 0 on 1 out)..  Team LOB–4.  Team–5.  CS–Philley (1,2nd base by Ditmar/Billy Shantz); Simpson (5,2nd base by Moore/Triandos).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Eddie Hurley, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:15.  A–14,842.
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