Washington Senators vs Detroit Tigers
August 31, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1955 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Washington Senators 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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Washington Senators 4, Detroit Tigers 7

Washington Senators ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 4 0 0 0
Runnels 2b 4 0 2 1
Vernon 1b 4 2 2 1
Sievers lf 3 0 2 2
Paula rf 4 0 1 0
Courtney c 4 0 0 0
Umphlett cf 4 0 0 0
Valdivielso ss 3 1 1 0
  Oravetz ph 1 0 0 0
Schmitz p 2 1 1 0
  Abernathy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 9 4
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 3 2 2 1
Tuttle cf 4 1 2 2
Kaline rf 3 1 0 1
Phillips J. 1b 2 0 0 0
  Torgeson ph,1b 1 1 1 3
Boone 3b 4 0 0 0
Phillips B. lf 4 0 1 0
House c 4 0 1 0
Malmberg 2b 3 2 1 0
Lary p 1 0 0 0
  Bertoia ph 1 0 0 0
  Bunning p 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 7 8 7
Washington 102 000 100492
Detroit 101 010 40x780
  Washington Senators IP H R ER BB SO
Schmitz  L(6-8) 6.2 6 5 3 2 2
  Abernathy   1.1 2 2 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
8
7
3
2
5
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W(13-12) 7.0 9 4 4 1 1
  Bunning  SV(1) 2.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
1
1

  E–Courtney (5), Valdivielso (16).  2B–Washington Vernon (20,off Lary); Schmitz (3,off Lary); Sievers (17,off Lary)..  SH–Schmitz (3,off Lary).  Team LOB–4.  CS–Sievers (3,3rd base by Lary/House).  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Ed Runge, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–2:03.  A–4,566.
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