Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
July 15, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 15, 1956 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Detroit Tigers 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 2, Baltimore Orioles 7

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 1 1 0
Torgeson 1b 4 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 3 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Kennedy 3b 3 1 1 0
Tuttle cf 3 0 1 1
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Wilson c 2 0 0 1
Garver p 2 0 0 0
  Belardi ph 1 0 0 0
  Aber p 0 0 0 0
  Maas p 0 0 0 0
  House ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf,2b 4 2 3 1
Hale 1b 3 0 0 0
  Evers ph 1 0 0 0
  Smith c 0 0 0 0
Kell 3b 2 1 1 1
Nieman lf 1 1 0 1
Triandos c,1b 5 0 0 1
Francona rf 4 1 2 2
Gardner 2b 1 0 0 0
  Frazier ph 0 0 0 1
  Pyburn cf 1 0 1 0
Miranda ss 4 0 0 0
Moore p 4 2 3 0
Totals 30 7 10 7
Detroit 100 001 000255
Baltimore 100 122 01x7100
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  L(0-2) 5.0 5 4 2 5 2
  Aber   0.0 2 2 1 0 0
  Maas   3.0 3 1 1 2 0
Totals
8.0
10
7
4
7
2
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Moore  W(7-6) 9.0 5 2 2 5 6
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
5
6

  E–Kennedy 2 (8), Bolling (4), Wilson (1), Maas (2).  DP–Detroit 2. Garver-Bolling-Torgeson, Kennedy-Bolling-Torgeson.  2B–Baltimore Moore (2,off Aber); Williams (3,off Aber).  HR–Baltimore Francona (4,4th inning off Garver 0 on 0 out).  SF–Wilson (4,off Moore); Frazier (1,off Garver); Kell (3,off Maas); Nieman (3,off Maas).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Smith (2,off Maas).  IBB–Kell (2,by Maas).  Team–10.  SB–Williams (1,2nd base off Garver/Wilson).  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–Eddie Rommel, 3B–Frank Tabacchi.  T–2:58.
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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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