Baltimore Orioles vs Cleveland Indians
July 29, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 29, 1956 at Cleveland 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Baltimore Orioles 0, Cleveland Indians 4

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf 3 0 0 0
Francona rf 4 0 1 0
Kell 3b 4 0 1 0
Nieman lf 3 0 1 0
Triandos 1b 4 0 1 0
Gardner 2b 4 0 0 0
Smith c 4 0 2 0
Miranda ss 4 0 1 0
Ferrarese p 2 0 0 0
  Zuverink p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 7 0
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 2 0 0 0
Woodling lf 3 1 1 0
Smith 3b 3 1 1 0
  Strickland 3b 0 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 4 1 1 3
  Ward 1b 0 0 0 0
Colavito rf 4 0 0 0
Busby cf 4 1 2 0
Carrasquel ss 4 0 1 0
Averill c 1 0 0 0
  Hegan c 3 0 2 0
Aguirre p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 8 3
Baltimore 000 000 000071
Cleveland 000 003 01x480
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Ferrarese  L(4-8) 6.1 6 3 3 4 4
  Zuverink   1.2 2 1 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
4
3
4
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Aguirre  W(2-0) 9.0 7 0 0 3 3
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
3
3

  E–Gardner (9).  DP–Cleveland 2. Carrasquel-Wertz, Carrasquel-Avila-Wertz.  2B–Baltimore Smith (13,off Aguirre), Cleveland Woodling (13,off Ferrarese).  HR–Cleveland Wertz (24,6th inning off Ferrarese 2 on 1 out).  IBB–Nieman (4,by Aguirre).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Aguirre (1,off Ferrarese).  Team–8.  SB–Williams (2,2nd base off Aguirre/Averill).  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–John Rice.  T–2:06.  A–13,005.
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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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