Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
August 16, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 16, 1955 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 0, Detroit Tigers 7
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf 3 0 0 0
Avila 2b 4 0 1 0
Rosen 3b 3 0 0 0
Kiner lf 3 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 3 0 0 0
Doby cf 3 0 1 0
Strickland ss 3 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 0 0 0
Wynn p 0 0 0 0
  Maglie p 1 0 0 0
  Foiles ph 1 0 0 0
  Mossi p 0 0 0 0
  Santiago p 0 0 0 0
  Evers ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 2 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 1 2 0
Tuttle cf 4 1 3 4
Kaline rf 5 0 1 0
Torgeson 1b 3 1 1 0
Boone 3b 5 1 2 0
Maxwell lf 3 0 1 0
  Phillips lf 1 0 0 0
House c 4 2 3 3
Hatfield 2b 3 0 0 0
Hoeft p 2 1 0 0
Totals 35 7 13 7
Cleveland 000 000 000–020
Detroit 030 003 01x–7130
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wynn  L(14-8) 1.1 3 3 3 2 0
  Maglie   3.2 3 0 0 2 1
  Mossi   0.1 4 3 3 2 0
  Santiago   2.2 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
13
7
7
6
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson   9.0 8 3 3 3 7
  Martin   0.2 1 0 0 1 1
  Howell  W(5-3) 1.1 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
11.0
13
4
4
6
12
  E–None.  DP–Cleveland 1. Rosen-Avila-Wertz.  Team LOB–2.  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–Bill Grieve, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:09.  A–47,545.
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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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