Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
July 5, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 5, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Cleveland Indians 7, Detroit Tigers 13

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Strickland 2b 5 0 0 0
Woodling lf 3 1 0 0
  Ward lf 2 0 0 0
Smith rf 3 2 1 0
Wertz 1b 3 1 0 0
Rosen 3b 3 2 2 3
Busby cf 4 1 2 4
Carrasquel ss 3 0 0 0
  Kuhn ss 0 0 0 0
Hegan c 2 0 0 0
  Averill c 1 0 0 0
Lemon p 1 0 0 0
  Houtteman p 0 0 0 0
  McLish p 0 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0
  Feller p 1 0 0 0
  Mele ph 1 0 0 0
  Mossi p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 5 7
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 1 2 4
  Brideweser pr,ss 0 0 0 0
Torgeson 1b 5 0 1 1
Maxwell lf 5 0 2 2
Kaline rf 5 1 1 0
Boone 3b 4 2 1 0
House c 5 2 2 1
Tuttle cf 4 2 1 1
Bolling 2b 3 2 2 2
Lary p 3 3 2 2
Totals 38 13 14 13
Cleveland 400 003 000752
Detroit 065 100 10x13142
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L(10-6) 1.0 5 5 5 0 0
  Houtteman   1.1 2 5 5 3 1
  McLish   1.2 4 2 2 0 1
  Feller   3.0 3 1 1 0 1
  Mossi   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
14
13
13
3
3
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W(5-10) 9.0 5 7 3 5 3
Totals
9.0
5
7
3
5
3

  E–Wertz (9), Busby (3), Boone (11), Bolling (2).  DP–Detroit 1. Brideweser-Bolling-Torgeson.  2B–Cleveland Busby (13,off Lary), Detroit Kaline (15,off Lemon); Maxwell (10,off Houtteman); House (4,off McLish)..  HR–Cleveland Busby (7,1st inning off Lary 3 on 2 out); Rosen (12,6th inning off Lary 2 on 0 out), Detroit Kuenn (7,3rd inning off McLish 2 on 1 out).  HBP–Smith (4,by Lary).  Team LOB–5.  SF–Kuenn (4,off Houtteman).  Team–5.  U-HP–Jim Honochick, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–Frank Umont, 3B–Charlie Berry.  T–2:18.  A–5,270.
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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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