Boston Red Sox vs Baltimore Orioles
July 1, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 1, 1956 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 3, Baltimore Orioles 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 5 0 0 0
Klaus 3b 5 0 1 0
Williams lf 4 1 2 2
Vernon 1b 4 0 0 0
Jensen rf 4 0 3 0
Piersall cf 4 0 1 0
White c 4 0 2 0
Buddin ss 4 0 0 0
Porterfield p 2 2 2 1
  Hurd p 0 0 0 0
  Gernert ph 1 0 0 0
  Dorish p 0 0 0 0
  Stephens ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 3 11 3
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Gardner 2b 4 0 1 0
Francona rf 4 1 1 0
Kell 3b 4 1 3 0
Nieman lf 4 1 1 1
Williams 1b 4 2 2 2
Pyburn cf 2 0 0 0
Smith c 4 0 2 1
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Johnson p 4 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 10 4
Boston 002 010 0003111
Baltimore 100 130 00x5100
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Porterfield  L(2-7) 4.2 8 5 4 2 0
  Hurd   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Dorish   3.0 2 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
10
5
4
3
1
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson  W(3-4) 9.0 11 3 3 0 8
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
0
8

  E–Klaus (9).  DP–Boston 1. Goodman-Vernon.  2B–Boston White (12,off Johnson), Baltimore Kell (9,off Porterfield).  3B–Baltimore Nieman (4,off Porterfield).  HR–Boston Williams (3,3rd inning off Johnson 1 on 2 out); Porterfield (1,5th inning off Johnson 0 on 0 out)., Baltimore Williams (2,5th inning off Porterfield 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–8.  Team–7.  SB–Jensen 2 (7,2nd base off Johnson/Smith,3rd base off Johnson/Smith).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Eddie Rommel, 2B–Frank Tabacchi, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:27.  A–10,864.
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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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