Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
April 29, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 29, 1956 at Briggs 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Cleveland Indians 8, Detroit Tigers 4

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Busby cf 5 0 0 0
Woodling lf 3 1 2 0
Avila 2b 4 1 0 0
Wertz 1b 4 3 2 3
Smith rf 4 2 2 4
Rosen 3b 3 0 1 0
Carrasquel ss 3 0 0 0
Naragon c 3 1 1 1
Lemon p 4 0 0 0
Totals 33 8 8 8
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Tuttle cf 4 1 0 0
Torgeson 1b 3 0 0 1
Kaline rf 4 0 2 2
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 0
Boone 3b 4 0 0 0
House c 4 1 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 1 1 1
Bertoia 2b 4 0 1 0
Black p 0 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
  Delsing ph 0 0 0 0
  Trucks p 0 0 0 0
  Belardi ph 1 0 0 0
  Foytack p 0 0 0 0
  Small ph 1 1 1 0
  Maas p 0 0 0 0
  Phillips ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 34 4 7 4
Cleveland 301 031 000880
Detroit 000 000 031471
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  W(2-1) 9.0 7 4 4 2 1
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
2
1
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Black  L(1-1) 1.0 3 3 3 1 1
  Miller   2.0 2 1 1 1 2
  Trucks   3.0 3 4 4 2 2
  Foytack   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Maas   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
8
8
5
8

  E–Boone (2).  DP–Detroit 1. Bertoia-Kuenn-Torgeson.  PB–Naragon (1).  2B–Detroit Kaline (1,off Lemon).  HR–Cleveland Wertz 2 (5,1st inning off Black 1 on 2 out,3rd inning off Miller 0 on 2 out); Smith 2 (2,1st inning off Black 0 on 2 out,5th inning off Trucks 2 on 2 out); Naragon (1,6th inning off Trucks 0 on 1 out)., Detroit Maxwell (2,9th inning off Lemon 0 on 2 out).  SH–Carrasquel (1,off Trucks).  HBP–Avila (1,by Trucks); Delsing (1,by Lemon).  Team LOB–5.  Team–6.  CS–Naragon (1,2nd base by Miller/House).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–2:12.  A–22,222.
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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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