Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
September 8, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 8, 1955 at Fenway Park. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 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 5, Boston Red Sox 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 0 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Torgeson 1b 5 1 0 0
Maxwell lf 3 1 2 2
  Phillips B. lf 0 0 0 0
House c 3 0 0 0
  Small pr 0 1 0 0
  Wilson c 0 0 0 0
Hatfield 2b,3b 4 1 1 0
Bertoia 3b 2 0 0 0
  Boone ph 1 0 0 0
  Malmberg 2b 0 0 0 0
Aber p 1 0 0 0
  Birrer p 0 0 0 0
  Delsing ph 1 0 0 0
  Gromek p 1 0 1 0
  Phillips J. ph 1 1 1 2
  Lary p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 6 4
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 3 2 2 1
Klaus ss 4 0 0 0
Williams lf 3 1 1 1
Jensen rf 3 0 1 1
Zauchin 1b 4 0 1 0
White c 4 0 1 0
Hatton 3b 4 0 0 0
Piersall cf 4 0 1 0
Nixon p 2 1 0 0
  Kinder p 0 0 0 0
  Throneberry ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 7 3
Detroit 000 100 004561
Boston 201 100 000472
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Aber   2.1 4 3 3 3 1
  Birrer   1.2 2 1 1 1 0
  Gromek  W(12-10) 4.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Lary  SV(1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
4
1
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nixon   8.0 4 4 4 4 4
  Kinder  L(5-2) 1.0 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
9.0
6
5
5
5
4

  E–Aber (3).  DP–Detroit 2. Hatfield-Torgeson-Kuenn-Torgeson, Bertoia-Hatfield-Torgeson.  2B–Detroit Maxwell (7,off Nixon); Hatfield (14,off Nixon); Kuenn (35,off Kinder).  HR–Detroit Maxwell (6,9th inning off Nixon 0 on 0 out).  IBB–Tuttle (2,by Kinder).  Team LOB–8.  SB–Torgeson (9,2nd base off Nixon/White).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Bill Grieve, 2B–Johnny Stevens, 3B–John Rice.  T–2:21.  A–13,514.
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