Baltimore Orioles vs Boston Red Sox
April 17, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 17, 1956 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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 1, Boston Red Sox 8

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Marsh 2b 2 0 0 0
  Boyd ph 1 0 1 0
Adams 3b 3 1 1 0
  Pope ph 1 0 0 0
Philley rf 5 0 0 0
Triandos 1b 4 0 2 1
Francona cf 4 0 1 0
Dyck lf 4 0 1 0
Smith c 3 0 0 0
Miranda ss 4 0 0 0
Wight p 0 0 0 0
  Brown p 1 0 1 0
  Nelson ph 1 0 1 0
  Dorish p 0 0 0 0
  Causey ph 1 0 0 0
  Birrer p 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 8 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 5 2 2 0
Malzone 3b 5 0 1 1
Williams lf 4 1 3 1
  Stephens pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Jensen rf 4 1 1 1
Vernon 1b 5 2 2 1
Piersall cf 4 1 3 2
Buddin ss 4 0 2 1
White c 3 0 1 0
Sullivan p 3 1 1 1
Totals 37 8 16 8
Baltimore 000 000 100181
Boston 402 000 02x8161
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Wight  L(0-1) 0.1 5 4 4 1 0
  Brown   3.2 4 2 2 2 0
  Dorish   2.0 3 0 0 0 1
  Birrer   2.0 4 2 2 0 1
Totals
8.0
16
8
8
3
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sullivan  W(1-0) 9.0 8 1 0 4 7
Totals
9.0
8
1
0
4
7

  E–Dyck (1), Buddin (1).  DP–Baltimore 1. Philley-Smith-Brown-Miranda, Boston 1. Goodman-Buddin-Vernon.  2B–Baltimore Brown (1,off Sullivan); Dyck (1,off Sullivan), Boston Williams 2 (2,off Brown,off Birrer); Vernon (1,off Brown); Goodman (1,off Birrer).  Team LOB–11.  SF–Sullivan (1,off Brown).  Team–9.  CS–Piersall (1,2nd base by Dorish/Smith); Piersall (1,2nd base by Dorish/Smith).  U-HP–Joe Paparella, 1B–Eddie Hurley, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Nestor Chylak.  T–2:19.  A–32,563.
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