Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox
May 16, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 16, 1957 at Fenway Park. 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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Detroit Tigers 2, Boston Red Sox 1

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 2b 4 1 2 1
Kuenn ss 4 0 1 1
Boone 1b 3 0 0 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Bertoia 3b 4 0 2 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 0 0
House c 3 1 1 0
Bunning p 3 0 1 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Piersall cf 4 0 2 0
Klaus ss 4 0 0 0
Williams lf 4 1 1 0
Vernon 1b 3 0 0 0
Jensen rf 4 0 1 1
Malzone 3b 4 0 0 0
Lepcio 2b 2 0 0 0
White c 2 0 0 0
  Goodman ph 1 0 1 0
  Daley c 0 0 0 0
Porterfield p 2 0 0 0
  Stephens ph 1 0 0 0
  Delock p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 5 1
Detroit 100 000 010280
Boston 000 000 001150
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning  W (2-1) 9.0 5 1 1 2 8
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
2
8
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Porterfield  L (0-1) 8.0 7 2 2 1 1
  Delock   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
2
2

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1. Kuenn-Bolling-Boone, Boston 1. Porterfield-Klaus-Vernon.  2B–Detroit Bunning (1,off Porterfield); Maxwell (2,off Porterfield), Boston Goodman (1,off Bunning); Williams (6,off Bunning)..  HR–Detroit Bolling (5,1st inning off Porterfield 0 on 0 out).  SH–Bunning (1,off Porterfield).  IBB–House (6,by Delock).  Team LOB–7.  Team–5.  SB–Piersall (4,2nd base off Bunning/House).  U-HP–Frank Tabacchi, 1B–Charlie Berry, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:12.  A–5,274.
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