Cleveland Indians vs Baltimore Orioles
July 21, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 21, 1956 at Memorial Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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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Cleveland Indians 4, Baltimore Orioles 3

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 4 1 1 0
Woodling lf,rf 5 2 2 0
Wertz 1b 4 1 2 3
Rosen 3b 4 0 0 0
Ward rf 2 0 2 0
  Mele ph 0 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph,lf 2 0 0 1
Busby cf 4 0 2 0
Naragon c 3 0 1 0
  Hegan c 1 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 4 0 0 0
Lemon p 4 0 1 0
Totals 37 4 11 4
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf,rf,2b 5 0 0 0
Hale 1b 4 1 1 1
  Pyburn cf 0 0 0 0
Kell 3b 4 1 2 0
Nieman lf 4 1 3 1
Francona rf,1b 4 0 1 1
Triandos c 3 0 0 0
Gardner 2b 3 0 0 0
  Frazier ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Miranda ss 3 0 1 0
Moore p 2 0 0 0
  Martin p 0 0 0 0
  Zuverink p 1 0 0 0
  Ferrarese p 0 0 0 0
  Evers ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 8 3
Cleveland 000 002 0204110
Baltimore 101 001 000380
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  W(12-7) 9.0 8 3 3 2 2
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
2
2
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Moore   5.0 6 2 2 0 3
  Martin   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Zuverink   1.2 2 1 1 0 0
  Ferrarese  L(4-7) 2.0 2 1 1 1 1
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
1
4

  E–None.  DP–Cleveland 1. Gardner-Hale, Baltimore 1. Gardner-Hale.  2B–Cleveland Ward (8,off Moore), Baltimore Kell (16,off Lemon); Francona (6,off Lemon).  HR–Cleveland Wertz (22,8th inning off Ferrarese 1 on 0 out), Baltimore Hale (1,3rd inning off Lemon 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–7.  IBB–Miranda (3,by Lemon).  Team–7.  U-HP–Frank Umont, 1B–Charlie Berry, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Larry Napp.  T–2:30.
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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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