Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians
September 14, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 14, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 2, Cleveland Indians 10

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 3b 4 0 0 0
Klaus ss 4 0 0 0
Williams lf 2 2 2 1
  Consolo pr 0 0 0 0
Gernert 1b 3 0 0 0
Jensen rf 4 0 1 0
Piersall cf 3 0 0 1
Lepcio 2b 4 0 0 0
Daley c 3 0 1 0
Parnell p 1 0 0 0
  Hurd p 0 0 0 0
  Mauch ph 1 0 0 0
  Dorish p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 4 2
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith 3b 2 2 1 0
Avila 2b 4 1 1 4
Colavito rf 4 3 2 1
Wertz 1b 4 0 0 0
Busby cf 2 1 0 0
Woodling lf 3 0 0 1
Carrasquel ss 4 1 2 2
  Strickland ss 1 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 1 1 0
Score p 4 1 2 1
Totals 31 10 9 9
Boston 000 101 000241
Cleveland 100 116 10x1090
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Parnell  L(7-5) 5.1 6 6 6 7 3
  Hurd   1.2 3 4 3 4 2
  Dorish   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
10
9
11
6
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  W(17-9) 9.0 4 2 2 3 8
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
3
8

  E–Piersall (4).  DP–Boston 1. Jensen-Gernert.  2B–Boston Daley (10,off Score), Cleveland Score (3,off Parnell); Carrasquel (15,off Hurd).  HR–Boston Williams (21,6th inning off Score 0 on 1 out), Cleveland Colavito (19,5th inning off Parnell 0 on 0 out); Avila (10,6th inning off Hurd 3 on 1 out).  SH–Parnell (4,off Score); Avila (7,off Hurd).  SF–Piersall (11,off Score).  Team LOB–5.  IBB–Smith 2 (7,by Parnell 2).  Team–9.  SB–Jensen (10,2nd base off Score/Hegan).  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Frank Umont.
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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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