Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox
August 19, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 19, 1956 at Comiskey Park I. 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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Detroit Tigers 3, Chicago White Sox 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 2 1 0
Phillips 1b 4 0 0 0
  Torgeson pr,1b 1 1 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 2 2
Kaline rf 5 0 1 1
Kennedy 3b 4 0 2 0
  Brideweser 3b 0 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 5 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 5 0 0 0
Wilson c 3 0 0 0
  House c 1 0 0 0
Lary p 3 0 0 0
Totals 39 3 7 3
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Rivera rf 6 1 1 0
Fox 2b 5 0 0 0
Doby cf 4 0 2 1
Minoso lf 3 0 1 0
Lollar c 5 0 1 0
Dropo 1b 4 0 1 0
Hatfield 3b 4 0 1 0
Aparicio ss 2 0 0 0
  Northey ph 0 0 0 0
  Esposito pr,ss 1 0 1 0
Harshman p 4 0 0 0
  Kinder p 0 0 0 0
  Philley ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 39 1 8 1
Detroit 100 000 000 02370
Chicago 000 000 010 00182
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W(13-12) 11.0 8 1 1 7 5
Totals
11.0
8
1
1
7
5
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Harshman  L(10-8) 10.0 7 3 3 3 7
  Kinder   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
11.0
7
3
3
3
9

  E–Fox (9), Harshman (3).  DP–Detroit 1. Kuenn-Bolling-Phillips, Chicago 2. Fox-Dropo, Hatfield-Dropo.  2B–Chicago Doby (16,off Lary).  SH–Maxwell (1,off Harshman); Fox (8,off Lary).  IBB–Kennedy (2,by Harshman); Minoso (1,by Lary).  Team LOB–7.  Team–13.  SB–Minoso (6,2nd base off Lary/House); Minoso (6,2nd base off Lary/House).  U-HP–Nestor Chylak, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Joe Paparella, 3B–Eddie Hurley.  T–2:05.
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