Boston Red Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
May 30, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 30, 1956 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Boston Red Sox 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

Boston Red Sox 1, Baltimore Orioles 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 3 0 0 0
Klaus ss 3 0 0 0
Williams lf 4 1 1 0
Gernert 1b 4 0 0 0
Jensen rf 4 0 1 0
Piersall cf 3 0 2 1
White c 3 0 0 0
Malzone 3b 3 0 0 0
Delock p 2 0 0 0
  Sisler p 1 0 1 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Pyburn cf 4 0 0 0
  Francona ph 1 0 0 0
Hale 1b 4 0 2 0
  Diering pr 0 1 0 0
Kell 3b 3 0 1 0
Nieman lf 4 0 2 1
Triandos c 4 1 1 1
Nelson rf 4 0 0 0
Gardner 2b 4 0 1 0
Miranda ss 4 0 0 0
Moore p 3 0 1 0
Totals 35 2 8 2
Boston 000 000 100151
Baltimore 010 000 001281
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Delock   6.1 6 1 1 4 9
  Sisler  L(2-2) 2.1 2 1 1 0 3
Totals
8.2
8
2
2
4
12
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Moore  W(4-3) 9.0 5 1 1 1 3
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
1
3

  E–Goodman (4), Nelson (1).  2B–Boston Williams (4,off Moore).  HR–Baltimore Triandos (7,2nd inning off Delock 0 on 1 out).  SH–Goodman (2,off Moore); Kell (4,off Delock).  Team LOB–4.  Team–12.  SB–Piersall (1,2nd base off Moore/Triandos).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–2:21.
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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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