Washington Senators vs Cleveland Indians
June 24, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 24, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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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Washington Senators 2, Cleveland Indians 7

Washington Senators ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 3 1 1 0
Herzog cf 3 0 0 0
Runnels 2b 3 1 1 2
Sievers 1b 2 0 1 0
Courtney c 3 0 0 0
Lemon rf 2 0 0 0
Oravetz lf 2 0 1 0
Valdivielso ss 1 0 0 0
  Plews ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Wiesler p 1 0 0 0
  Berberet ph 1 0 0 0
  Griggs p 0 0 0 0
Totals 22 2 4 2
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 2 2 1 1
Woodling lf 2 0 1 0
Smith rf 3 3 3 1
Rosen 3b 2 1 1 3
Wertz 1b 3 0 2 1
Busby cf 3 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 3 0 1 0
Averill c 3 1 1 1
Lemon p 2 0 0 0
Totals 23 7 10 7
Washington 000 002241
Cleveland 102 22x7100
  Washington Senators IP H R ER BB SO
Wiesler  L(2-4) 4.0 7 5 5 2 1
  Griggs   1.0 3 2 2 0 1
Totals
5.0
10
7
7
2
2
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  W(9-4) 6.0 4 2 2 2 4
Totals
6.0
4
2
2
2
4

  E–Lemon (6).  2B–Washington Yost (13,off Lemon); Sievers (10,off Lemon), Cleveland Smith (12,off Griggs).  HR–Washington Runnels (3,6th inning off Lemon 1 on 1 out), Cleveland Averill (3,4th inning off Wiesler 0 on 1 out); Avila (5,4th inning off Wiesler 0 on 2 out); Rosen (8,5th inning off Griggs 1 on 0 out)..  Team LOB–4.  SH–Woodling (3,off Wiesler).  Team–4.  SB–Avila (4,3rd base off Wiesler/Courtney).  CS–Woodling (5,2nd base by Wiesler/Courtney).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Joe Paparella, 2B–Eddie Hurley, 3B–Nestor Chylak.  T–1:53.  A–13,072.
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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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