Chicago White Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
June 3, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 3, 1956 at Memorial Stadium. The Chicago White Sox 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)
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Chicago White Sox 9, Baltimore Orioles 2

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Minoso lf 4 0 0 0
Fox 2b 3 2 2 1
Doby cf 4 2 2 1
Philley 1b 4 0 0 1
Rivera rf 5 1 1 2
Hatfield 3b 5 2 3 1
Moss c 3 0 0 0
Aparicio ss 5 1 2 1
Wilson p 5 1 2 1
Totals 38 9 12 8
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Hale 1b 4 0 1 0
Francona cf 4 0 0 0
Kell 3b 3 1 1 0
  Causey 3b 1 0 1 0
Nieman lf 4 1 1 2
Evers rf 2 0 0 0
Smith c 3 0 0 0
Gardner 2b 3 0 0 0
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Fornieles p 0 0 0 0
  Wight p 1 0 0 0
  Nelson ph 1 0 0 0
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
  Triandos ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 4 2
Chicago 400 102 2009120
Baltimore 000 200 000242
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wilson  W(7-2) 9.0 4 2 2 1 1
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
1
1
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Fornieles  L(1-2) 1.0 4 4 4 2 0
  Wight   5.0 4 3 2 4 1
  Brown   3.0 4 2 2 0 5
Totals
9.0
12
9
8
6
6

  E–Gardner (5), Miranda (6).  DP–Chicago 1. Hatfield-Fox-Philley, Baltimore 2. Miranda-Gardner-Hale, Kell-Gardner-Hale.  2B–Chicago Hatfield 2 (2,off Fornieles,off Wight).  3B–Chicago Doby (1,off Wight).  HR–Baltimore Nieman (4,4th inning off Wilson 1 on 2 out).  HBP–Fox (4,by Wight).  Team LOB–9.  Team–2.  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Joe Paparella, 2B–Eddie Hurley, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:21.  A–25,312.
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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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