Cleveland Indians vs Baltimore Orioles
August 28, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 28, 1956 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 0, Baltimore Orioles 1

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith cf 4 0 0 0
Avila 2b 4 0 1 0
Wertz 1b 3 0 0 0
Colavito rf 3 0 1 0
Rosen 3b 3 0 0 0
Woodling lf 3 0 0 0
Hegan c 2 0 0 0
  Pope ph 1 0 0 0
  Score p 0 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 3 0 1 0
Aguirre p 2 0 1 0
  Naragon ph,c 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 4 0
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf,rf 2 0 0 0
Boyd 1b 3 1 1 0
Kell 3b 4 0 1 0
Nieman lf 3 0 1 1
Triandos c 3 0 1 0
Francona rf 2 0 0 0
  Pyburn cf 0 0 0 0
Gardner 2b 3 0 0 0
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Moore p 3 0 0 0
Totals 26 1 4 1
Cleveland 000 000 000040
Baltimore 100 000 00x140
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Aguirre  L(2-2) 7.0 4 1 1 2 4
  Score   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
4
1
1
3
5
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Moore  W(11-6) 9.0 4 0 0 1 6
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
1
6

  E–None.  DP–Cleveland 1. Carrasquel-Avila-Wertz, Baltimore 1. Triandos-Miranda.  PB–Hegan (1).  2B–Baltimore Nieman (16,off Aguirre).  Team LOB–3.  SH–Boyd (2,off Score).  Team–5.  CS–Colavito (2,2nd base by Moore/Triandos).  U-HP–Joe Paparella, 1B–Eddie Hurley, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:06.  A–13,673.
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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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