Cleveland Indians vs Baltimore Orioles
July 22, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 22, 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 8, Baltimore Orioles 0

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 4 0 0 0
Woodling lf 5 2 1 0
Mele rf 5 2 2 0
Wertz 1b 4 1 3 3
  Ward pr,1b 1 1 0 0
Busby cf 5 1 3 2
Carrasquel ss 3 0 1 0
Averill c 3 0 2 2
  Hegan pr,c 1 1 0 0
Strickland 3b 5 0 3 0
Wynn p 3 0 2 1
Totals 39 8 17 8
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf,lf 4 0 2 0
Hale 1b 3 0 0 0
  Nelson rf 1 0 0 0
Francona rf,1b 3 0 2 0
Nieman lf 3 0 0 0
  Pyburn cf 1 0 0 0
Triandos c 3 0 0 0
  Schmitz p 0 0 0 0
  Evers ph 1 0 0 0
Causey 3b 3 0 0 0
Gardner 2b 3 0 2 0
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Wight p 1 0 0 0
  Frazier ph 1 0 0 0
  Zuverink p 0 0 0 0
  Gastall c 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 6 0
Cleveland 200 020 4008170
Baltimore 000 000 000062
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wynn  W(11-5) 9.0 6 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
1
3
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Wight  L(5-8) 5.0 8 4 3 1 1
  Zuverink   2.0 7 4 4 0 0
  Schmitz   2.0 2 0 0 2 2
Totals
9.0
17
8
7
3
3

  E–Hale 2 (8).  DP–Cleveland 2. Strickland-Avila-Wertz, Wertz-Carrasquel-Wertz, Baltimore 1. Gardner-Miranda-Hale.  2B–Baltimore Francona (7,off Wynn); Gardner (10,off Wynn).  HR–Cleveland Wertz (23,5th inning off Wight 1 on 1 out).  SH–Carrasquel 2 (7,off Wight,off Zuverink); Wynn 2 (5,off Zuverink,off Schmitz); Avila (3,off Zuverink).  Team LOB–12.  Team–5.  U-HP–Jim Honochick, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–Frank Umont, 3B–Charlie Berry.  T–2:17.  A–10,019.
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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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