Detroit Tigers vs Washington Senators
June 8, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 8, 1956 at Griffith Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Washington Senators 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 7, Washington Senators 0

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Tuttle cf 4 1 0 0
Belardi 1b 5 3 3 2
Kaline rf 4 2 2 1
Maxwell lf 5 0 2 1
Boone 3b 3 1 0 0
House c 3 0 1 2
Bolling 2b 4 0 2 1
Brideweser ss 5 0 1 0
Hoeft p 5 0 0 0
Totals 38 7 11 7
Washington Senators ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 2 0 0 0
Snyder 2b 4 0 2 0
Paula rf 4 0 0 0
Sievers 1b 4 0 1 0
Olson cf 4 0 1 0
Lemon lf 4 0 2 0
Luttrell ss 3 0 0 0
Fitz Gerald c 3 0 0 0
Pascual p 0 0 0 0
  Stewart p 2 0 0 0
  Killebrew ph 1 0 0 0
  Clevenger p 0 0 0 0
  Oravetz ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 6 0
Detroit 400 102 0007110
Washington 000 000 000062
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Hoeft  W(6-2) 9.0 6 0 0 4 7
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
4
7
  Washington Senators IP H R ER BB SO
Pascual  L(2-7) 0.1 4 4 4 2 0
  Stewart   6.2 7 3 1 3 5
  Clevenger   2.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
11
7
5
6
7

  E–Sievers (5), Luttrell (5).  DP–Detroit 1. Boone-Belardi.  2B–Detroit Bolling (1,off Stewart); Belardi (1,off Stewart), Washington Lemon (12,off Hoeft).  HR–Detroit Belardi (2,1st inning off Pascual 1 on 0 out); Kaline (7,1st inning off Pascual 0 on 0 out).  SF–House (2,off Stewart).  Team LOB–11.  Team–9.  SB–Kaline (2,3rd base off Stewart/Fitz Gerald).  U–Joe Paparella, Eddie Hurley, Hank Soar.  T–2:33.  A–4,704.
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