Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
August 1, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 1, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 5, Detroit Tigers 4

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 3 1 2 0
  Consolo 2b 0 0 0 0
Klaus 3b 4 1 0 0
Williams lf 4 1 2 3
  Stephens pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Vernon 1b 5 1 2 0
Jensen rf 4 1 2 2
Piersall cf 5 0 1 0
Daley c 5 0 0 0
Buddin ss 4 0 1 0
Brewer p 3 0 1 0
  Hurd p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 5 11 5
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 0 0 0
  Brideweser pr 0 0 0 0
Torgeson 1b 5 1 1 1
Maxwell lf 4 2 2 2
Kaline rf 5 0 2 1
Boone 3b 2 0 1 0
House c 4 0 0 0
Small cf 3 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 4 1 1 0
Foytack p 2 0 0 0
  Belardi ph 1 0 0 0
  Bunning p 0 0 0 0
  Tuttle ph 1 0 1 0
  Hoeft pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 8 4
Boston 300 000 2005113
Detroit 000 002 011481
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Brewer  W(15-3) 8.1 8 4 3 4 3
  Hurd   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
3
4
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  L(8-8) 7.0 8 5 5 5 2
  Bunning   2.0 3 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
11
5
5
6
2

  E–Consolo (2), Klaus (13), Vernon (4), House (5).  DP–Boston 1. Goodman-Buddin-Vernon, Detroit 1. Torgeson.  3B–Boston Goodman (6,off Bunning), Detroit Maxwell (3,off Brewer).  HR–Boston Williams (10,1st inning off Foytack 2 on 0 out); Jensen (12,7th inning off Foytack 1 on 1 out), Detroit Maxwell (20,8th inning off Brewer 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–11.  Team–9.  SB–Buddin (1,2nd base off Foytack/House).  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Red Flaherty, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–2:26.  A–9,540.
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