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Baltimore Orioles vs Boston Red Sox
August 31, 1956 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1956 at Fenway Park. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Boston Red Sox 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 Friday, August 31, 1956 at Fenway Park |
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| Baltimore |
1 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 2 | | 5 | 1 | 3 | – | 13 | 15 | 0 |
| Boston |
0 | 0 | 2 | | 1 | 2 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | 13 | 1 |
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| Baltimore Orioles |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Johnson W(7-8) |
9.0 |
13 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
6 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
13 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
6 |
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| Boston Red Sox |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Nixon L(8-7) |
6.1 |
8 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
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Delock |
1.2 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
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Hurd |
1.0 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
15 |
13 |
10 |
4 |
3 |
E–Klaus (19). DP–Baltimore 1. Miranda-Gardner-Boyd, Boston 2. Nixon-Bolling-Gernert, Klaus-Gernert. 2B–Baltimore Williams (14,off Delock), Boston Williams (22,off Johnson); Piersall (33,off Johnson); Klaus (22,off Johnson). HR–Baltimore Kell 2 (8,1st inning off Nixon 0 on 2 out,4th inning off Nixon 0 on 0 out); Triandos (14,7th inning off Delock 2 on 2 out); Gardner (11,9th inning off Hurd 2 on 2 out), Boston Lepcio (12,3rd inning off Johnson 0 on 0 out); Jensen (17,4th inning off Johnson 0 on 0 out). SH–Johnson (5,off Nixon). Team LOB–4. Team–8. SB–Jensen (9,2nd base off Johnson/Triandos); Jensen (9,2nd base off Johnson/Triandos). U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–John Rice. T–3:00. A–10,706. |
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| Game played on Friday, August 31, 1956 at Fenway Park |
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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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