Washington Senators vs Chicago White Sox
May 16, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 16, 1956 at Comiskey Park I. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Washington Senators and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Washington Senators 1, Chicago White Sox 3

Washington Senators ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 3 0 0 0
Snyder ss 3 0 1 0
Runnels 2b 4 0 0 0
Paula lf 4 1 1 0
Sievers 1b 3 0 0 0
Lemon rf 4 0 3 0
Olson cf 3 0 0 1
Berberet c 4 0 1 0
Griggs p 1 0 0 0
  Plews ph 1 0 0 0
  Ramos p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 6 1
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Rivera cf 3 0 0 0
Fox 2b 4 0 0 0
Minoso lf 4 1 2 0
Kell 3b 4 0 1 1
Lollar c 3 0 0 0
Nieman rf 4 1 2 0
Jackson 1b 3 1 1 0
Aparicio ss 3 0 0 0
Donovan p 3 0 1 2
Totals 31 3 7 3
Washington 000 000 001160
Chicago 000 200 10x370
  Washington Senators IP H R ER BB SO
Griggs  L(0-1) 7.0 7 3 3 4 6
  Ramos   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
3
3
4
6
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Donovan  W(2-0) 9.0 6 1 1 2 6
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
6

  E–None.  DP–Washington 1. Donovan-Fox-Jackson, Chicago 1. Donovan-Fox-Jackson.  2B–Washington Lemon (7,off Donovan), Chicago Minoso 2 (6,off Griggs 2); Nieman (1,off Griggs).  SH–Griggs (1,off Donovan).  SF–Olson (3,off Donovan).  HBP–Sievers (1,by Donovan).  Team LOB–7.  Team–8.  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Red Flaherty, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–2:13.  A–2,233.
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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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