Detroit Tigers vs Kansas City Athletics
June 30, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 30, 1956 at Municipal Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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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Detroit Tigers 14, Kansas City Athletics 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 3 0 1 0
  Brideweser ph,ss 2 0 1 2
Bolling 2b 6 0 1 1
Maxwell lf 2 1 1 0
  Kennedy lf 1 0 0 0
Kaline rf 6 2 4 2
Boone 3b 5 4 2 1
Phillips 1b 3 1 1 0
  Torgeson ph,1b 2 1 1 0
Tuttle cf 5 3 3 2
Wilson c 3 1 1 5
Foytack p 5 1 1 1
Totals 43 14 17 14
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 4 0 1 0
  Shantz p 0 0 0 0
  Pless ph 1 0 0 0
Finigan 3b 4 0 0 0
Skizas lf 4 1 2 0
Simpson rf 4 0 0 0
Thompson c 4 0 1 0
Lopez 2b 3 1 1 1
  Boyer 2b 1 0 1 0
Groth cf 4 0 1 1
DeMaestri ss 1 0 0 0
  Baxes pr,ss 1 0 0 0
Kellner p 1 0 0 0
  Crimian p 0 0 0 0
  Santiago p 0 0 0 0
  Robinson ph,1b 2 0 1 0
Totals 34 2 8 2
Detroit 000 346 10014171
Kansas City 000 200 000282
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  W(5-5) 9.0 8 2 2 3 6
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
3
6
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Kellner  L(5-3) 4.1 9 6 6 3 1
  Crimian   1.0 2 5 3 2 1
  Santiago   1.2 5 3 1 0 1
  Shantz   2.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
17
14
10
6
4

  E–Boone (10), Finigan 2 (9).  DP–Detroit 2. Foytack-Kuenn-Boone-Bolling-Kuenn-Boone, Bolling-Brideweser-Torgeson, Kansas City 1. Thompson-Lopez-Thompson.  2B–Detroit Kaline 2 (13,off Kellner,off Shantz); Kuenn (17,off Kellner); Torgeson (2,off Santiago), Kansas City Power (9,off Foytack).  3B–Detroit Kaline (4,off Crimian), Kansas City Groth (3,off Foytack).  HR–Detroit Kaline (10,5th inning off Kellner 0 on 0 out); Wilson (2,5th inning off Crimian 2 on 1 out); Boone (12,7th inning off Santiago 0 on 2 out)..  SF–Wilson 2 (3,off Kellner,off Santiago).  Team LOB–10.  Team–8.  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:40.  A–10,953.
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