Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
September 17, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 17, 1955 at Cleveland 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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Detroit Tigers 3, Cleveland Indians 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 1 3 0
Torgeson 1b 5 1 3 0
Kaline rf 4 1 3 2
Maxwell lf 3 0 0 0
  Phillips lf 2 0 0 0
Boone 3b 4 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 3 0 2 1
Wilson c 4 0 0 0
Hatfield 2b 4 0 1 0
Lary p 4 0 1 0
Totals 38 3 13 3
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf 4 1 0 0
Avila 2b 3 0 1 0
Woodling lf 4 0 1 1
Doby cf 4 0 1 0
Rosen 3b 5 0 1 0
Fain 1b 3 0 1 0
  Altobelli pr 0 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 0 1 0
  Naragon ph,c 2 0 0 0
Strickland ss 3 0 1 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 1 0
  Harrell pr,ss 0 0 0 0
Lemon p 2 0 1 0
  Kiner ph 1 0 1 0
  Evers pr 0 0 0 0
  Mossi p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 10 1
Detroit 000 200 1003130
Cleveland 100 000 0001101
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W(14-14) 9.0 10 1 1 6 4
Totals
9.0
10
1
1
6
4
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L(18-9) 8.0 11 3 2 1 4
  Mossi   1.0 2 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
13
3
2
1
6

  E–Rosen (18).  DP–Detroit 1. Avila-Strickland-Fain.  2B–Detroit Torgeson (10,off Lemon); Kaline (24,off Lemon).  SF–Tuttle (5,off Lemon).  Team LOB–10.  SB–Smith (11,2nd base off Lary/Wilson).  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Bill Grieve.  T–3:07.  A–14,639.
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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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