Baltimore Orioles vs Detroit Tigers
June 22, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 22, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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)
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Baltimore Orioles 3, Detroit Tigers 2

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Gardner 2b 4 0 0 0
Hale 1b 4 0 1 1
  Brown pr 0 0 0 0
  Zuverink p 1 0 1 1
Kell 3b 4 0 1 1
Nieman lf 2 0 1 0
  Diering pr,lf 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph,c 2 0 0 0
Triandos c,1b 5 0 2 0
Francona cf,rf 5 0 1 0
Nelson rf,lf 3 0 0 0
Miranda ss 4 1 1 0
Wight p 1 0 0 0
  Evers ph 1 0 1 0
  Pyburn pr,lf,cf 1 2 1 0
Totals 37 3 10 3
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Hicks ss 4 0 0 0
  Kuenn ph,ss 2 0 0 0
Phillips 1b,2b 5 1 2 0
Kaline rf 5 0 3 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Boone 3b 3 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 5 1 1 0
Wilson c 2 0 1 0
  Belardi ph,1b 2 0 0 0
Brideweser 2b 3 0 2 1
  House ph,c 2 0 0 0
Foytack p 3 0 1 0
  Torgeson ph 1 0 1 0
  Masterson p 0 0 0 0
  Kennedy ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 42 2 13 1
Baltimore 000 010 001 013102
Detroit 110 000 000 002132
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Wight   8.0 10 2 2 2 2
  Zuverink  W(4-2) 3.0 3 0 0 1 0
Totals
11.0
13
2
2
3
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack   9.0 8 2 2 5 7
  Masterson  L(0-1) 2.0 2 1 0 1 0
Totals
11.0
10
3
2
6
7

  E–Miranda (13), Wight (2), Phillips (3), Belardi (2).  DP–Baltimore 1. Miranda-Gardner-Hale.  2B–Detroit Torgeson (1,off Zuverink); Phillips (4,off Zuverink)..  SH–Wight 2 (2,off Foytack 2); Gardner 2 (4,off Foytack 2); Kell (7,off Masterson).; Wilson (3,off Wight).  SF–Kell (2,off Foytack).  Team LOB–13.  IBB–Boone (6,by Wight); Maxwell (1,by Zuverink)..  Team–11.  SB–Wilson (1,2nd base off Wight/Triandos); Wilson (1,2nd base off Wight/Triandos).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–John Rice.  T–3:06.  A–16,196.
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