Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers
August 12, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 12, 1955 at Briggs Stadium. The Chicago White 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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Chicago White Sox 2, Detroit Tigers 1

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Minoso lf 4 1 2 0
Fox 2b 3 0 0 0
Rivera cf,rf 4 1 1 2
Kell 3b 3 0 0 0
  Busby cf 1 0 0 0
Dropo 1b 4 0 2 0
Kennedy rf,3b 3 0 1 0
Carrasquel ss 4 0 1 0
Lollar c 2 0 1 0
Trucks p 3 0 0 0
  Howell p 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 8 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 1 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 0
Torgeson 1b 2 0 1 1
Boone 3b 4 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 0 0
House c 4 0 2 0
  Phillips B. pr 0 0 0 0
Hatfield 2b 3 0 0 0
Gromek p 2 0 0 0
  Delsing ph 1 0 0 0
  Birrer p 0 0 0 0
  Phillips J. ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 7 1
Chicago 200 000 000280
Detroit 000 001 000171
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Trucks  W(11-6) 7.2 6 1 1 3 2
  Howell  SV(4) 1.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
3
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Gromek  L(11-7) 7.0 7 2 2 1 3
  Birrer   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
2
3

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 1. Kell-Fox-Dropo.  2B–Chicago Dropo (12,off Gromek).  HR–Chicago Rivera (7,1st inning off Gromek 1 on 1 out).  SH–Fox (10,off Gromek); Kennedy (1,off Birrer)..  IBB–Lollar 2 (9,by Gromek,by Birrer).  Team LOB–7.  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Red Flaherty, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Charlie Berry.  T–2:25.  A–44,830.
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