Baltimore Orioles vs Washington Senators
September 5, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 5, 1956 at Griffith Stadium. The Washington Senators defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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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Baltimore Orioles 0, Washington Senators 2

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams lf 3 0 1 0
Boyd 1b 3 0 1 0
Kell 3b 4 0 1 0
Triandos c 3 0 0 0
Francona rf 4 0 0 0
Pyburn cf 4 0 0 0
Gardner 2b 3 0 0 0
Miranda ss 3 0 0 0
Johnson p 3 0 1 0
Totals 30 0 4 0
Washington Senators ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 4 1 1 0
Herzog cf 4 1 2 0
Runnels 1b 3 0 3 2
Sievers lf 3 0 0 0
Courtney c 3 0 1 0
Lemon rf 3 0 0 0
Plews 2b 2 0 0 0
Valdivielso ss 3 0 0 0
Stobbs p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 7 2
Baltimore 000 000 000040
Washington 000 000 02x271
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson  L(7-9) 8.0 7 2 2 2 5
Totals
8.0
7
2
2
2
5
  Washington Senators IP H R ER BB SO
Stobbs  W(15-10) 9.0 4 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
1
2

  E–Valdivielso (22).  DP–Baltimore 1. Kell-Gardner-Boyd.  2B–Washington Herzog (13,off Johnson).  SH–Boyd (4,off Stobbs); Williams (6,off Stobbs).  IBB–Triandos (4,by Stobbs).  Team LOB–6.  Team–4.  CS–Herzog (4,2nd base by Johnson/Triandos); Runnels (6,2nd base by Johnson/Triandos); Herzog (4,2nd base by Johnson/Triandos); Runnels (6,2nd base by Johnson/Triandos).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–1:59.  A–1,657.
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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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