Baltimore Orioles vs Boston Red Sox
August 9, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1956 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox 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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Baltimore Orioles 1, Boston Red Sox 3

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf 4 0 1 0
Hale 1b 2 0 1 0
  Frazier rf 2 0 0 0
Kell 3b 4 0 0 0
Nieman lf 4 0 0 0
Triandos c 3 0 1 0
Francona rf,1b 3 1 0 0
Gardner 2b 3 0 2 1
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Fornieles p 2 0 0 0
  Hatton ph 1 0 1 0
  Palica p 0 0 0 0
  Schmitz p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 6 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 4 0 2 0
  Consolo pr,2b 0 0 0 0
Klaus 3b 3 0 1 0
Williams lf 3 1 2 0
  Stephens pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Vernon 1b 4 1 0 0
Jensen rf 2 1 0 0
Piersall cf 3 0 1 2
White c 3 0 0 0
Buddin ss 3 0 0 0
Sullivan p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 6 2
Baltimore 010 000 000162
Boston 000 300 00x360
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Fornieles  L(3-6) 7.0 5 3 1 2 5
  Palica   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Schmitz   0.2 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
6
3
1
3
6
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sullivan  W(10-5) 9.0 6 1 1 1 5
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
5

  E–Hale 2 (10).  DP–Baltimore 3. Gardner-Miranda-Hale, Miranda-Hale, Fornieles-Miranda-Francona, Boston 2. Buddin-Vernon, Sullivan-Buddin-Vernon.  2B–Boston Goodman (20,off Fornieles).  Team LOB–4.  Team–4.  SB–Francona (9,2nd base off Sullivan/White); Gardner (4,2nd base off Sullivan/White); Williams (4,2nd base off Sullivan/White).  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:07.  A–9,218.
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