Chicago White Sox vs Boston Red Sox
July 14, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 14, 1956 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 0, Boston Red Sox 4

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Rivera rf 3 0 0 0
  Dropo ph 1 0 0 0
Fox 2b 3 0 0 0
Minoso lf 3 0 0 0
Philley 1b 3 0 0 0
Doby cf 2 0 0 0
Lollar c 3 0 0 0
Esposito 3b 2 0 0 0
Aparicio ss 3 0 0 0
McDonald p 2 0 0 0
  LaPalme p 0 0 0 0
  Phillips ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 26 0 0 0
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Goodman 2b 4 1 1 0
Klaus 3b 4 1 2 1
Williams lf 3 1 2 0
  Stephens lf 0 0 0 0
Vernon 1b 4 0 1 1
Jensen rf 3 0 0 0
Piersall cf 3 1 1 0
White c 3 0 0 0
Buddin ss 2 0 1 1
Parnell p 2 0 0 0
Totals 28 4 8 3
Chicago 000 000 000000
Boston 000 201 10x481
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
McDonald  L (0-1) 5.0 5 3 3 1 1
  LaPalme   3.0 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
4
4
1
2
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Parnell  W (3-2) 9.0 0 0 0 2 4
  Wehmeier   5.1 4 1 1 1 5
  Collum  W(4-1) 2.0 3 1 1 0 0
  Konstanty  SV(4) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
17.1
0
0
0
2
4

  E–Buddin (25).  DP–Chicago 3. Minoso-Esposito, Esposito-Fox-Philley, Esposito-Fox-Philley, Boston 2. Buddin-Goodman-Vernon, White-Goodman.  2B–Boston Klaus (11,off McDonald); Goodman (16,off McDonald); Piersall (20,off LaPalme).  Team LOB–1.  SH–Parnell (2,off LaPalme).  HBP–Buddin (3,by McDonald).  Team–3.  CS–Esposito (2,2nd base by Parnell/White).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–John Rice.  T–1:42.  A–14,542.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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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."