Baltimore Orioles vs Cleveland Indians
May 20, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Baltimore Orioles 1, Cleveland Indians 5

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Diering cf 4 0 0 0
Boyd lf 2 0 0 0
  Nelson lf 2 0 1 0
Philley 3b 4 0 0 0
Hale 1b 4 1 1 0
Francona rf 3 0 1 0
Triandos c 4 0 1 1
Gardner 2b 3 0 0 0
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Palica p 2 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 4 1
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Busby cf 4 2 2 1
Avila 2b 4 1 1 1
Smith rf,lf 3 1 1 1
Wertz 1b 2 0 0 0
  Colavito pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Ward lf,1b 3 0 1 2
Regalado 3b 4 0 1 0
Carrasquel ss 3 0 0 0
Hegan c 4 1 1 0
Garcia p 3 0 1 0
Totals 30 5 8 5
Baltimore 000 010 000140
Cleveland 002 000 30x581
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Palica  L(2-5) 7.0 8 5 5 5 6
  Brown   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
5
7
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Garcia  W(3-3) 9.0 4 1 1 1 6
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
1
6

  E–Regalado (2), Regalado (2).  2B–Cleveland Busby (4,off Palica); Smith (2,off Palica).  Team LOB–5.  SH–Garcia (3,off Palica).  Team–7.  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:08.  A–12,318.
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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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