Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
May 28, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 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 3, Cleveland Indians 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 0 1 0
Phillips 1b 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 3 1 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 1 0
Boone 3b 4 2 3 1
Kennedy lf 4 0 1 1
Brideweser 2b 3 0 0 0
Wilson c 4 0 1 1
Gromek p 3 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 8 3
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Busby cf 4 1 1 0
Avila 2b 4 0 3 1
Smith rf 4 0 1 0
Wertz 1b 4 0 0 0
Ward lf 4 0 0 0
Regalado 3b 4 0 1 0
Strickland ss 2 0 0 0
  Naragon ph,c 1 0 0 0
Hegan c 2 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 0 0 0 0
  Carrasquel ss 0 0 0 0
Score p 2 0 0 0
  Mele ph 1 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1
Detroit 000 201 000380
Cleveland 100 000 000160
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Gromek  W(3-3) 9.0 6 1 1 1 5
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  L(5-4) 7.0 7 3 3 2 6
  Narleski   2.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
2
8

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Wilson-Kuenn, Cleveland 2. Strickland-Avila-Wertz, Wertz-Strickland-Wertz.  2B–Detroit Kennedy (3,off Score), Cleveland Regalado (1,off Gromek).  3B–Cleveland Busby (1,off Gromek).  HR–Detroit Boone (7,6th inning off Score 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–5.  Team–5.  SB–Tuttle (1,2nd base off Narleski/Naragon).  CS–Avila (1,2nd base by Gromek/Wilson).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Joe Paparella, 3B–Eddie Hurley.  T–2:13.  A–9,546.
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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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