Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
August 9, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1955 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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 2, Cleveland Indians 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 3 1 0 0
Kaline rf 5 1 2 0
Phillips J. 1b 5 0 1 1
Boone 3b 4 0 2 1
Phillips B. lf 1 0 0 0
  Delsing ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Wilson c 1 0 0 0
  Maxwell ph 0 0 0 0
  Coleman p 0 0 0 0
  Lary p 0 0 0 0
Malmberg 2b 3 0 0 0
  House ph,c 1 0 0 0
Garver p 1 0 0 0
  Cristante p 0 0 0 0
  Torgeson ph 1 0 0 0
  Foytack p 0 0 0 0
  Hatfield ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 5 2
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf 4 1 1 2
Woodling lf 4 0 3 1
Wertz 1b 3 0 1 0
  Evers pr 0 0 0 0
  Fain 1b 0 0 0 0
Rosen 3b 4 0 0 0
Doby cf 1 1 0 0
Avila 2b 4 0 0 0
Naragon c 2 1 1 0
  Hegan pr,c 0 0 0 0
Strickland ss 2 1 1 1
Score p 3 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 4 7 4
Detroit 000 000 200251
Cleveland 040 000 00x471
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  L(10-11) 4.0 7 4 4 2 2
  Cristante   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Foytack   2.0 0 0 0 4 1
  Coleman   0.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Lary   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
7
4
4
8
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  W(11-9) 6.2 4 2 0 8 5
  Narleski  SV(11) 2.1 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
5
2
0
9
6

  E–Kaline (5).  DP–Detroit 1. Boone-J. Phillips.  2B–Detroit Kaline (18,off Score).  Team LOB–12.  CS–Smith (4,2nd base by Foytack/Wilson).  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–3:00.  A–25,107.
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Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

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