Baltimore Orioles vs Cleveland Indians
September 12, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 12, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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 1, Cleveland Indians 2

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Williams cf 5 1 1 0
Boyd 1b 2 0 1 0
Kell 3b 4 0 1 1
Nieman lf 3 0 1 0
Francona rf 3 0 0 0
Triandos c 4 0 2 0
  Evers pr 0 0 0 0
Gardner 2b,ss 4 0 1 0
Miranda ss 2 0 0 0
  Frazier ph 0 0 0 0
  Pyburn pr 0 0 0 0
  Robinson 2b 1 0 0 0
Brown p 2 0 0 0
  Ginsberg ph 1 0 0 0
  Fornieles p 0 0 0 0
  Causey ph 0 0 0 0
  Gastall ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 7 1
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Pope cf 4 0 1 0
  Busby cf 0 0 0 0
Smith 3b 3 0 0 0
Woodling lf 3 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 3 1 2 1
Colavito rf 3 0 1 0
Carrasquel ss 2 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 0 0 0
Strickland 2b 3 0 0 0
Wynn p 3 1 1 1
  Mossi p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 2 5 2
Baltimore 000 100 000170
Cleveland 000 011 00x251
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Brown  L(9-5) 6.0 5 2 2 1 1
  Fornieles   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
5
2
2
1
3
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wynn  W(17-9) 8.1 7 1 1 4 8
  Mossi  SV(2) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
4
9

  E–Smith (10).  DP–Baltimore 1. Miranda-Gardner-Boyd, Cleveland 1. Wertz-Carrasquel.  2B–Baltimore Boyd (8,off Wynn).  HR–Cleveland Wertz (28,5th inning off Brown 0 on 0 out); Wynn (1,6th inning off Brown 0 on 0 out).  SH–Boyd (5,off Wynn); Carrasquel (9,off Brown).  Team LOB–9.  Team–3.  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–Frank Tabacchi, 2B–Ed Runge, 3B–Eddie Rommel.  T–2:08.  A–4,738.
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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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