Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians
August 5, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 5, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians 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 2, Cleveland Indians 1

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 1 0 1 0
  Consolo pr,2b 2 0 0 0
Klaus 3b 3 0 0 0
Williams lf 3 1 1 1
  Stephens lf 0 0 0 0
Vernon 1b 3 0 1 0
Jensen rf 3 1 2 1
Piersall cf 3 0 0 0
White c 2 0 0 0
Buddin ss 2 0 0 0
Sisler p 3 0 0 0
Totals 25 2 5 2
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 2 1 0 0
Busby cf 3 0 0 0
Smith lf 3 0 1 1
Wertz 1b 2 0 1 0
Rosen 3b 3 0 1 0
Colavito rf 2 0 0 0
Hegan c 1 0 0 0
  Woodling ph 1 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 2 0 0 0
Lemon p 2 0 1 0
  McLish p 0 0 0 0
  Naragon ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 22 1 4 1
Boston 000 011 0250
Cleveland 100 000 0141
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sisler  W(5-5) 7.0 4 1 1 4 4
Totals
7.0
4
1
1
4
4
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L(14-9) 6.0 5 2 2 2 0
  McLish   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
7.0
5
2
2
2
0

  E–Avila (11).  DP–Boston 2. White-Buddin, Buddin-Consolo-Vernon, Cleveland 2. Carrasquel-Avila-Wertz, Rosen-Avila-Wertz.  3B–Cleveland Smith (4,off Sisler).  HR–Boston Jensen (14,5th inning off Lemon 0 on 0 out); Williams (12,6th inning off Lemon 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Carrasquel (8,off Sisler).  Team–5.  CS–Carrasquel (3,2nd base by Sisler/White); Carrasquel (3,2nd base by Sisler/White).  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–Frank Tabacchi, 2B–Ed Runge, 3B–Eddie Rommel.  T–2:05.  A–28,924.
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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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