Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
April 22, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 22, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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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Detroit Tigers 2, Cleveland Indians 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Tuttle cf 4 1 1 0
Torgeson 1b 4 0 2 0
Kaline rf 3 0 0 0
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 0
Boone 3b 4 1 2 1
Maxwell lf 4 0 2 0
Bertoia 2b 4 0 0 0
Streuli c 3 0 1 0
  House ph 1 0 0 0
Marlowe p 1 0 0 0
  Belardi ph 1 0 1 0
  Wojey p 0 0 0 0
  Delsing ph 1 0 0 0
  Hoeft p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 9 1
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Busby cf 4 1 2 1
Avila 2b 4 0 1 2
Woodling lf 3 1 0 0
Wertz 1b 2 1 1 2
Rosen 3b 3 0 1 0
Colavito rf 4 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 4 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 2 2 0
Lemon p 1 0 0 0
Totals 28 5 7 5
Detroit 100 000 001290
Cleveland 200 201 00x572
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Marlowe  L(0-1) 4.0 5 4 4 5 1
  Wojey   3.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Hoeft   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
7
5
5
6
3
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  W(1-1) 9.0 9 2 2 1 5
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
1
5

  E–Woodling (1), Carrasquel (1), Woodling (1), Carrasquel (1).  DP–Detroit 4. Avila-Wertz, Lemon-Avila-Wertz, Rosen-Avila-Wertz, Lemon-Avila-Wertz, Cleveland 4. Avila-Wertz, Lemon-Avila-Wertz, Rosen-Avila-Wertz, Lemon-Avila-Wertz.  2B–Detroit Boone (2,off Lemon); Maxwell (1,off Lemon).  HR–Detroit Boone (1,9th inning off Lemon 0 on 1 out), Cleveland Wertz (1,1st inning off Marlowe 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Lemon 2 (2,off Marlowe,off Wojey).  Team–7.  SB–Busby (1,2nd base off Marlowe/Streuli); Busby (1,2nd base off Marlowe/Streuli).  CS–Hegan (1,2nd base by Marlowe/Streuli); Hegan (1,2nd base by Marlowe/Streuli).  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Red Flaherty, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–2:17.  A–12,980.
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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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