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Kansas City Athletics vs Baltimore Orioles
August 21, 1956 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1956 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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"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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| Game played on Tuesday, August 21, 1956 at Memorial Stadium |
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| Kansas City |
1 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| Baltimore |
1 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 4 | 10 | 1 |
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| Kansas City Athletics |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Kellner |
2.0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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Shantz |
3.0 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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Gorman L(7-8) |
3.1 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
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Ditmar |
0.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Totals |
8.1 |
10 |
4 |
4 |
6 |
2 |
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| Baltimore Orioles |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Wight |
7.0 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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Zuverink W(6-5) |
2.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
8 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
E–Miranda (22). DP–Kansas City 3. Kellner-Boyer-Power, Power-Smith-Power, DeMaestri-Finigan-Power. 2B–Kansas City Smith (16,off Wight), Baltimore Williams (13,off Shantz). 3B–Baltimore Boyd (3,off Kellner); Miranda (4,off Shantz). HR–Kansas City Lopez (16,7th inning off Wight 0 on 0 out). Team LOB–9. SH–Williams (4,off Gorman); Ginsberg (1,off Gorman). IBB–Williams (1,by Ditmar). Team–9. SB–Pilarcik (5,2nd base off Wight/Triandos); Lopez (3,2nd base off Zuverink/Gastall). U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Bill Summers. T–2:50. A–7,336. |
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| Game played on Tuesday, August 21, 1956 at Memorial Stadium |
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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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