Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles
May 16, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 16, 1959 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles 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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Detroit Tigers 1, Baltimore Orioles 6

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 3 0 0 1
Osborne 1b 3 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Kaline cf 4 0 2 0
Kuenn rf 4 0 2 0
Berberet c 4 0 0 0
Bridges ss 4 1 1 0
Bolling 2b 3 0 2 0
Lary p 1 0 0 0
  Chrisley ph 1 0 0 0
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 9 1
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Tasby cf 3 0 1 3
Boyd 1b 4 0 1 1
Woodling rf 4 0 2 0
  Pilarcik pr,rf 0 1 0 0
Nieman lf 4 1 1 0
  Green lf 0 0 0 0
Triandos c 2 1 1 1
Klaus 3b 3 0 1 0
Carrasquel ss 4 0 1 0
Gardner 2b 3 2 1 0
Wilhelm p 3 1 0 1
Totals 30 6 9 6
Detroit 000 010 000192
Baltimore 000 014 10x690
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  L (3-3) 6.0 7 5 1 3 3
  Morgan   2.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
6
2
3
3
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Wilhelm  W (5-0) 9.0 9 1 1 0 3
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
0
3

  E–Kuenn (2), Lary (2).  2B–Detroit Bolling (2,off Wilhelm); Kuenn (6,off Wilhelm), Baltimore Woodling (6,off Morgan).  3B–Baltimore Tasby (1,off Lary).  SH–Lary (2,off Wilhelm); Triandos (2,off Lary); Klaus (1,off Lary).  SF–Yost (1,off Wilhelm); Triandos (2,off Morgan).  HBP–Osborne (1,by Wilhelm).  Team LOB–6.  IBB–Gardner (1,by Lary).  Team–6.  CS–Kaline (5,2nd base by Wilhelm/Triandos).  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:23.  A–7,674.
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