Washington Senators vs Cleveland Indians
September 18, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 18, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Washington Senators 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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Washington Senators 0, Cleveland Indians 1
Washington Senators ab   r   h rbi
Oravetz cf 2 0 0 0
Fitz Gerald c 4 0 1 0
Runnels 1b 4 0 0 0
Sievers lf 4 0 1 0
Yost rf 3 0 0 0
Killebrew 3b 4 0 1 0
Plews 2b 3 0 1 0
Luttrell ss 3 0 0 0
Wiesler p 3 0 0 0
  Lemon ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 4 0
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith lf 3 0 0 0
Avila 2b 4 0 1 0
Rosen 3b 4 0 1 0
Colavito rf 4 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 4 0 1 0
  Pope pr 0 1 0 0
  Ward 1b 0 0 0 0
Busby cf 3 0 1 0
Carrasquel ss 3 0 0 0
Hegan c 4 0 3 1
Score p 2 0 1 0
Totals 31 1 8 1
Washington 000 000 000–041
Cleveland 000 000 01x–181
  Washington Senators IP H R ER BB SO
Wiesler  L(3-12) 8.0 8 1 1 5 4
Totals
8.0
8
1
1
5
4
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  W(18-9) 9.0 4 0 0 7 14
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
7
14
  E–Oravetz (3), Busby (4).  2B–Cleveland Rosen (14,off Wiesler); Wertz (16,off Wiesler); Hegan (14,off Wiesler).  Team LOB–11.  SH–Score (4,off Wiesler).  Team–12.  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Eddie Rommel, 2B–Johnny Stevens, 3B–Frank Tabacchi.  T–2:25.
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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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