Baltimore Orioles vs Detroit Tigers
August 29, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 29, 1955 at Briggs Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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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Baltimore Orioles 4, Detroit Tigers 3

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Marsh 2b,3b 3 1 1 2
Abrams cf 3 1 0 0
  Wight p 0 0 0 0
Philley lf,rf 4 0 2 0
  Diering cf 0 0 0 0
Hale 1b 4 0 1 1
Dyck 3b,lf 4 0 1 1
Pope rf,cf,rf 4 0 0 0
Smith c 3 0 2 0
  Leppert pr,2b 1 1 0 0
Miranda ss 4 1 2 0
Zuverink p 2 0 0 0
  Moore p 0 0 0 0
  Triandos ph,c 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 9 4
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 3 0 1 2
Kaline rf 4 0 2 0
Torgeson 1b 3 0 0 0
Boone 3b 3 0 0 0
Phillips B. lf 4 1 1 1
House c 4 1 2 0
Hatfield 2b 2 0 0 0
  Bertoia ph 1 0 0 0
Garver p 1 1 0 0
  Birrer p 0 0 0 0
  Aber p 0 0 0 0
  Phillips J. ph 1 0 1 0
  Lary p 0 0 0 0
  Wilson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 7 3
Baltimore 200 000 200490
Detroit 000 030 000370
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Zuverink   4.1 4 2 2 2 1
  Moore  W(7-9) 1.2 1 1 1 2 0
  Wight  SV(2) 3.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
4
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  L(11-13) 6.2 7 4 4 3 2
  Birrer   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Aber   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Lary   2.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
3
2

  E–None.  DP–Baltimore 2. Miranda-Hale, Miranda-Marsh-Hale, Detroit 2. Hatfield-Kuenn-Torgeson, Torgeson-Kuenn-Torgeson.  2B–Baltimore Hale (4,off Garver), Detroit J. Phillips (6,off Wight); Kaline (20,off Wight)..  HR–Detroit B. Phillips (3,5th inning off Zuverink 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Hatfield (11,off Zuverink).  Team–6.  CS–Miranda (3,2nd base by Garver/House).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Eddie Hurley, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:26.  A–7,230.
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