Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers
September 22, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 22, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Detroit Tigers 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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Cleveland Indians 5, Detroit Tigers 1

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith lf 4 2 2 1
Avila 2b 3 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 3 1 0 0
Rosen 3b 3 2 0 0
Colavito rf 4 0 2 2
Pope cf 4 0 1 1
  Busby cf 0 0 0 0
Hegan c 4 0 1 0
Strickland ss 2 0 0 0
Score p 4 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 6 4
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 0
Phillips 1b 3 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Boone 3b 4 1 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 3 0 1 0
Wilson c 3 0 1 1
Foytack p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 5 1
Cleveland 200 010 020560
Detroit 000 000 100151
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  W(19-9) 9.0 5 1 1 1 9
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
1
9
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Foytack  L(14-13) 9.0 6 5 4 5 9
Totals
9.0
6
5
4
5
9

  E–Phillips (10), Phillips (10).  DP–Cleveland 1. Kuenn-Bolling-Phillips, Detroit 1. Kuenn-Bolling-Phillips.  PB–Wilson (7); Wilson (7).  2B–Cleveland Colavito (10,off Foytack), Detroit Phillips (13,off Score).  HR–Cleveland Smith (15,1st inning off Foytack 0 on 0 out).  SH–Strickland (4,off Foytack).  Team LOB–5.  Team–5.  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Eddie Rommel, 2B–Johnny Stevens, 3B–Frank Tabacchi.  T–2:00.  A–7,738.
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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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