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Kansas City Athletics vs Detroit Tigers
May 25, 1956 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 25, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Kansas City Athletics defeated the Detroit Tigers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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"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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| Game played on Friday, May 25, 1956 at Briggs Stadium |
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| Kansas City |
0 | 1 | 1 | | 3 | 0 | 1 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| Detroit |
0 | 2 | 1 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | 7 | 6 |
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| Kansas City Athletics |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Kretlow W(2-4) |
9.0 |
7 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
7 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
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| Detroit Tigers |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Foytack L(3-2) |
7.0 |
5 |
6 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
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Gromek |
2.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
6 |
8 |
E–Ginsberg (2), Torgeson (2), Kaline (2), Boone 2 (6), House (2), Foytack (1). DP–Kansas City 2. Pless-Finigan-Simpson, DeMaestri-Jacobs-Simpson. 2B–Kansas City Ginsberg (5,off Foytack); DeMaestri (6,off Gromek), Detroit Kuenn (10,off Kretlow). HR–Detroit Boone (4,2nd inning off Kretlow 1 on 0 out). SH–Kretlow 2 (2,off Foytack 2); Finigan (2,off Foytack). SF–Lopez (2,off Foytack). HBP–Zernial (2,by Foytack). Team LOB–10. Team–5. SB–Slaughter (1,2nd base off Foytack/House); Kuenn (6,3rd base off Kretlow/Ginsberg). CS–Simpson (2,2nd base by Foytack/House); Torgeson (1,2nd base by Kretlow/Ginsberg). U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Eddie Rommel, 2B–Frank Tabacchi, 3B–Johnny Stevens. |
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| Game played on Friday, May 25, 1956 at Briggs Stadium |
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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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