Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
June 17, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 17, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 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 13, Detroit Tigers 2

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Piersall cf 4 1 1 0
Klaus 3b 6 0 1 1
Williams lf 3 0 1 0
  Stephens lf 1 2 1 0
Gernert 1b 3 3 2 1
Jensen rf 6 3 4 2
Lepcio 2b 6 2 4 4
White c 4 1 2 2
  Daley c 2 0 0 0
Buddin ss 5 1 3 2
Sullivan p 3 0 0 0
Totals 43 13 19 12
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Belardi 1b 4 0 2 0
Kaline rf 3 1 0 0
  Kennedy rf 1 0 0 0
Maxwell lf 4 1 1 0
Boone 3b 3 0 0 0
House c 3 0 1 2
Tuttle cf 4 0 2 0
Brideweser ss 2 0 0 0
  Kuenn ph 1 0 0 0
  Hicks ss 1 0 0 0
Hoeft p 0 0 0 0
  Maas p 0 0 0 0
  Small ph 1 0 0 0
  Masterson p 0 0 0 0
  Torgeson ph 0 0 0 0
  Aber p 0 0 0 0
  Brady p 0 0 0 0
  Porter ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
Boston 000 510 03413190
Detroit 000 002 000261
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sullivan  W(6-3) 9.0 6 2 2 4 2
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
4
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Hoeft  L(8-3) 3.2 8 5 5 3 2
  Maas   1.1 2 1 1 1 0
  Masterson   2.0 2 0 0 1 1
  Aber   0.2 4 3 3 1 0
  Brady   1.1 3 4 4 1 2
Totals
9.0
19
13
13
7
5

  E–Kennedy (5).  DP–Boston 1. Gernert, Detroit 2. Brideweser-Bolling-Belardi, Brideweser-Belardi-House.  2B–Boston White (11,off Hoeft); Buddin 2 (10,off Hoeft,off Masterson)., Detroit Maxwell (7,off Sullivan).  HR–Boston Lepcio (3,9th inning off Brady 2 on 2 out).  SH–Sullivan 2 (4,off Maas,off Masterson).  IBB–Piersall (1,by Hoeft).  Team LOB–12.  Team–7.  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Joe Paparella.  T–2:37.  A–22,330.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook