Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
September 16, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 16, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers 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 4, Detroit Tigers 8

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Mauch 2b 5 0 1 0
Klaus ss 5 1 1 2
Gernert lf 3 1 1 0
Jensen rf 4 1 2 1
Piersall cf 4 0 2 1
Zauchin 1b 2 0 0 0
  Vernon ph,1b 0 0 0 0
Lepcio 3b 3 0 1 0
  Williams ph 1 0 0 0
  Bolling 3b 0 0 0 0
Daley c 4 0 0 0
Nixon p 0 0 0 0
  Porterfield p 2 1 1 0
  Parnell p 1 0 0 0
  Dorish p 0 0 0 0
  Stephens ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 35 4 10 4
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 1 2 0
Phillips 1b 5 2 2 1
Maxwell lf 2 2 2 0
Kaline rf 4 1 2 1
Boone 3b 3 1 3 5
Tuttle cf 5 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 3 0 1 0
Lau c 2 0 0 0
  Wilson ph,c 2 0 0 0
Host p 2 0 0 0
  Bunning p 2 1 2 0
Totals 35 8 14 7
Boston 100 030 0004100
Detroit 300 011 03x8140
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nixon   0.2 1 1 1 0 0
  Porterfield   4.0 5 3 3 6 1
  Parnell  L(7-6) 2.2 7 4 4 1 0
  Dorish   0.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
14
8
8
7
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Host   4.2 9 4 4 2 5
  Bunning  W(5-1) 4.1 1 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
3
8

  E–None.  DP–Boston 1. Klaus-Mauch-Zauchin, Detroit 1. Boone-Bolling-Phillips.  2B–Boston Piersall (38,off Host), Detroit Kaline (31,off Porterfield); Bolling (21,off Porterfield); Bunning (2,off Parnell); Kuenn (31,off Parnell).  3B–Detroit Boone (6,off Dorish).  HR–Boston Klaus (7,5th inning off Host 1 on 1 out); Jensen (20,5th inning off Host 0 on 2 out), Detroit Boone (21,1st inning off Porterfield 2 on 2 out).  Team LOB–7.  IBB–Boone (8,by Porterfield).  Team–10.  U-HP–Frank Tabacchi, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–Eddie Rommel, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:34.  A–34,174.
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