Chicago White Sox vs Boston Red Sox
July 12, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 12, 1956 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White 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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Chicago White Sox 1, Boston Red Sox 3

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Rivera rf 4 0 0 0
Fox 2b 4 0 0 0
Minoso lf 4 0 2 0
Doby cf 4 0 1 0
Philley 1b 4 0 0 0
Lollar c 4 0 2 0
Hatfield 3b 3 0 1 0
  Esposito ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Aparicio ss 2 0 1 0
Harshman p 3 1 1 1
Totals 33 1 8 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 4 0 1 1
Klaus 3b 4 0 1 0
Williams lf 3 0 0 0
Gernert 1b 4 1 1 0
Jensen rf 4 0 0 0
Piersall cf 4 1 2 2
White c 2 0 0 0
Buddin ss 1 0 0 0
Sullivan p 2 0 0 0
  Zauchin ph 1 0 1 0
  Consolo pr 0 1 0 0
  Kiely p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 6 3
Chicago 000 000 010180
Boston 000 000 012360
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Harshman  L(6-5) 8.1 6 3 3 3 6
Totals
8.1
6
3
3
3
6
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sullivan   8.0 6 1 1 0 2
  Kiely  W(2-2) 1.0 2 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
1
2

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 1. Aparicio-Fox-Philley.  2B–Chicago Lollar (16,off Sullivan), Boston Goodman (15,off Harshman).  HR–Chicago Harshman (3,8th inning off Sullivan 0 on 0 out), Boston Piersall (6,9th inning off Harshman 1 on 1 out).  SH–Harshman (3,off Sullivan); Aparicio (8,off Sullivan); Buddin (2,off Harshman).  IBB–Aparicio (1,by Kiely).  Team LOB–8.  Team–5.  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–2:15.  A–28,092.
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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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