Kansas City Athletics vs Cleveland Indians
September 26, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 26, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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

Kansas City Athletics 4, Cleveland Indians 8

Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 2b 5 0 0 0
Lopez 3b 4 1 1 0
Skizas rf 3 1 2 0
Smith c 4 0 0 1
Zernial lf 3 0 0 1
Groth cf 2 1 1 0
Pless 1b 4 1 2 1
DeMaestri ss 4 0 1 1
Ditmar p 1 0 0 0
  Brunet p 1 0 0 0
  Herriage p 0 0 0 0
  Finigan ph 1 0 0 0
  Harrington p 0 0 0 0
  Pisoni ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 7 4
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Caffie lf 2 3 1 0
Smith cf 3 3 1 0
Wertz 1b 5 1 5 5
Rosen 3b 5 1 1 1
Colavito rf 2 0 0 0
Avila 2b 3 0 0 1
Hegan c 1 0 0 0
Strickland ss 0 0 0 0
  Woodling ph 0 0 0 0
  Busby ph 1 0 0 0
  Carrasquel ss 2 0 0 0
Score p 4 0 0 0
Totals 28 8 8 7
Kansas City 100 003 000471
Cleveland 103 210 10x880
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Ditmar  L (12-22) 2.1 4 4 2 5 0
  Brunet   2.1 2 3 3 6 1
  Herriage   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Harrington   3.0 2 1 1 1 1
Totals
8.0
8
8
6
12
3
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Score  W (20-9) 9.0 7 4 4 3 12
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
3
12

  E–Ditmar (2).  PB–Smith 2 (5).  2B–Kansas City Skizas (10,off Score); Pless (3,off Score), Cleveland Wertz 4 (22,off Ditmar,off Brunet 2,off Harrington); Rosen (18,off Ditmar)..  SF–Zernial (3,off Score); Avila (1,off Ditmar).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Strickland (5,off Ditmar); Avila (8,off Brunet)..  IBB–Hegan (6,by Ditmar).  Team–11.  SB–Skizas (3,2nd base off Score/Hegan); Lopez (4,3rd base off Score/Hegan).  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Nestor Chylak, 3B–Joe Paparella.  T–2:42.  A–3,630.
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."