Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians
August 16, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 16, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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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Detroit Tigers 4, Cleveland Indians 5

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 1
Phillips 1b 3 1 1 1
  Maxwell ph 1 0 0 0
Kennedy lf 3 0 1 0
  Torgeson ph 0 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 1 2 1
Tuttle cf 5 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 2 0 1 1
Brideweser 3b 4 1 0 0
Wilson c 4 1 1 0
Hoeft p 0 0 0 0
  Porter ph 1 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
  Masterson p 1 0 0 0
  Belardi ph 1 0 1 0
  Small pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 7 4
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 3 0 1 0
Woodling lf 3 1 2 0
Smith cf 3 1 1 0
Rosen 3b 3 2 1 1
Colavito rf 3 1 1 4
Ward 1b 3 0 1 0
Hegan c 1 0 0 0
Strickland ss 4 0 1 0
Score p 3 0 0 0
  Wynn p 1 0 0 0
Totals 27 5 8 5
Detroit 000 021 100470
Cleveland 400 100 00x580
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Hoeft  L(14-10) 2.0 3 4 4 4 3
  Miller   3.1 5 1 1 4 2
  Masterson   2.2 0 0 0 2 2
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
10
7
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  W(13-7) 6.2 5 4 4 6 6
  Wynn   2.1 2 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
7
7

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Bolling-Phillips.  2B–Detroit Bolling (13,off Score), Cleveland Woodling (16,off Hoeft).  HR–Cleveland Colavito (13,1st inning off Hoeft 3 on 1 out); Rosen (13,4th inning off Miller 0 on 2 out).  SF–Kuenn (7,off Score).  Team LOB–10.  SH–Ward (3,off Miller); Hegan (4,off Miller).  HBP–Smith (6,by Hoeft).  Team–11.  CS–Avila (4,2nd base by Hoeft/Wilson).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–2:46.  A–7,217.
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