Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers
August 11, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 11, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago White Sox 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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Chicago White Sox 1, Detroit Tigers 5

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Aparicio ss 4 0 1 0
Fox 2b 4 0 1 0
Doby cf 2 0 0 0
Minoso lf 4 0 0 0
Rivera rf 4 1 0 0
Lollar c 4 0 3 0
Dropo 1b 4 0 0 0
Hatfield 3b 4 0 2 1
Wilson p 1 0 0 0
  Delsing ph 1 0 0 0
  Keegan p 0 0 0 0
  Philley ph 1 0 0 0
  Kinder p 0 0 0 0
  Northey ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 7 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 1 1 0
Torgeson 1b 3 1 1 1
Maxwell lf 4 1 2 2
Kaline rf 3 1 1 0
Boone 3b 4 1 1 2
House c 4 0 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 1 0
Bolling 2b 3 0 1 0
Lary p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 9 5
Chicago 000 000 001171
Detroit 103 000 10x593
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Wilson  L(11-12) 4.0 7 4 4 1 1
  Keegan   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Kinder   2.0 1 1 1 0 2
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
2
3
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W(11-12) 9.0 7 1 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
7
1
0
2
3

  E–Fox (8), Bolling 2 (9), Lary (2).  DP–Detroit 2. Kuenn-Bolling-Torgeson, Kuenn-Bolling-Torgeson.  2B–Detroit Kaline (23,off Wilson); Bolling (11,off Keegan).  HR–Detroit Torgeson (11,3rd inning off Wilson 0 on 0 out); Boone (16,3rd inning off Wilson 1 on 1 out); Maxwell (22,7th inning off Kinder 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–8.  Team–5.  CS–Torgeson (3,Home by Wilson/Lollar); Torgeson (3,Home by Wilson/Lollar).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–2:31.  A–11,975.
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