Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
June 13, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 13, 1956 at Memorial Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 2, Baltimore Orioles 0

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Belardi 1b 4 1 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 1 1 2
  Kennedy lf 0 0 0 0
Boone 3b 4 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 2 0 0 0
House c 3 0 1 0
Hicks ss 3 0 1 0
Foytack p 1 0 0 0
  Torgeson ph 1 0 0 0
  Gromek p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 5 2
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Gardner 2b 5 0 1 0
Hale 1b 4 0 1 0
Evers rf 2 0 1 0
Nieman lf 4 0 0 0
Triandos c 0 0 0 0
  Smith c 4 0 0 0
Francona cf 3 0 1 0
Causey 3b 3 0 1 0
  Zuverink p 1 0 0 0
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Loes p 2 0 1 0
  Adams 3b 2 0 1 0
Totals 33 0 7 0
Detroit 000 000 002251
Baltimore 000 000 000070
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack   7.0 7 0 0 4 5
  Gromek  W(5-3) 2.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
4
7
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Loes   6.0 1 0 0 1 5
  Zuverink  L(3-2) 3.0 4 2 2 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
1
6

  E–Foytack (2).  DP–Detroit 2. Foytack-Bolling-Belardi, Bolling-Hicks-Belardi, Baltimore 1. Evers-Adams.  2B–Detroit Kaline (10,off Zuverink), Baltimore Gardner (4,off Foytack); Hale (5,off Foytack).  HR–Detroit Maxwell (11,9th inning off Zuverink 1 on 2 out).  SH–Foytack (3,off Loes).  Team LOB–3.  Team–10.  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Red Flaherty, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–2:01.  A–7,252.
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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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