Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 3, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 3, 1956 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox 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, Boston Red Sox 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Tuttle cf 4 1 1 0
Torgeson 1b 4 1 1 2
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Kuenn ss 4 0 2 0
Boone 3b 3 0 0 0
House c 4 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 2 0 0 0
Bertoia 2b 3 0 0 0
  Delsing ph 0 0 0 0
Maas p 3 0 0 0
  Aber p 0 0 0 0
  Belardi ph 1 0 1 0
  King pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 3 2 2 0
Malzone 3b 4 1 1 2
Jensen rf 3 0 1 0
Gernert lf 4 1 2 2
  Stephens pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Zauchin 1b 4 0 1 0
Piersall cf 4 0 0 0
Buddin ss 2 0 0 0
White c 4 1 2 0
Sullivan p 3 0 1 1
Totals 31 5 10 5
Detroit 000 000 020260
Boston 200 100 20x5101
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Maas  L(0-1) 6.1 10 5 5 3 8
  Aber   1.2 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
4
8
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sullivan  W(2-0) 9.0 6 2 2 5 4
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
5
4

  E–White (1).  DP–Detroit 1. Bertoia-Kuenn-Torgeson, Boston 1. Malzone-Zauchin.  2B–Boston Goodman (6,off Maas); Sullivan (1,off Maas); Gernert (3,off Maas)..  HR–Detroit Torgeson (3,8th inning off Sullivan 1 on 0 out), Boston Gernert (3,1st inning off Maas 1 on 2 out); Malzone (1,7th inning off Maas 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Sullivan (2,off Maas).  IBB–Goodman (1,by Maas).  Team–7.  CS–Jensen (1,2nd base by Maas/House); Jensen (1,2nd base by Maas/House).  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Joe Paparella, 2B–Eddie Hurley, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:06.  A–4,600.
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