Baltimore Orioles vs Kansas City Athletics
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 Municipal Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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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Baltimore Orioles 7, Kansas City Athletics 2

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Gardner 2b 5 1 2 2
Hale 1b 4 1 2 0
  Diering pr,cf 1 1 0 0
Evers rf 3 1 0 0
Nieman lf 3 2 2 3
  Pyburn pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Francona cf,1b 4 0 1 1
Smith c 4 0 1 1
Causey 3b 4 0 0 0
Miranda ss 4 0 1 0
Brown p 3 1 1 0
Totals 35 7 10 7
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
DeMaestri ss 4 0 1 0
Robinson 1b 4 0 1 0
Power lf 3 0 0 0
Simpson rf 4 0 0 0
Ginsberg c 4 1 2 0
Lopez 3b 3 1 2 0
Groth cf 4 0 0 0
Boyer 2b 2 0 0 0
  Slaughter ph 1 0 0 1
  Finigan 2b 1 0 0 0
Ditmar p 3 0 2 1
  Gorman p 0 0 0 0
  Lasorda p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Baltimore 000 200 0327100
Kansas City 000 000 200280
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Brown  W(4-0) 9.0 8 2 2 2 3
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
2
3
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Ditmar  L(6-6) 7.0 8 4 4 3 4
  Gorman   0.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Lasorda   2.0 1 2 2 2 2
Totals
9.0
10
7
7
5
6

  E–None.  DP–Baltimore 2. DeMaestri-Robinson, Boyer-DeMaestri-Robinson, Kansas City 2. DeMaestri-Robinson, Boyer-DeMaestri-Robinson.  2B–Baltimore Gardner (5,off Ditmar); Francona (2,off Ditmar), Kansas City Lopez (9,off Brown); DeMaestri (8,off Brown)..  HR–Baltimore Nieman (7,8th inning off Gorman 2 on 0 out); Gardner (6,9th inning off Lasorda 1 on 1 out)..  HBP–Brown (1,by Lasorda).  Team LOB–7.  Team–6.  CS–Power (2,2nd base by Brown/Smith); Power (2,2nd base by Brown/Smith).  U-HP–Frank Umont, 1B–Charlie Berry, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Larry Napp.  T–2:13.  A–9,496.
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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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