1938 All-Star Game Box Score by Baseball Almanac

1938 All-Star Game Box Score

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present the box score to the 1938 Midsummer Classic which was played on July 6, 1938 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.

"Before the no-hitter against Boston on June eleventh that year (1938) I was just a rookie that nobody, but Bill McKechnie knew." - Johnny Vander Meer


Name	Pos	AB	R	H	RBI
Mike Kreevich	lf	2	0	0	0
e-Doc Cramer	ph-lf	2	0	0	0
Charlie Gehringer	2b	3	0	1	0
Earl Averill	cf	4	0	0	0
Jimmie Foxx	1b-3b	4	0	1	0
Joe DiMaggio	rf	4	1	1	0
Bill Dickey	c	4	0	1	0
Joe Cronin	ss	3	0	2	1
Buddy Lewis	3b	1	0	0	0
b-Lou Gehrig	ph-1b	3	0	1	0
Lefty Gomez	p	1	0	0	0
Johnny Allen	p	1	0	0	0
d-Rudy York	ph	1	0	0	0
Lefty Grove	p	0	0	0	0
e-Bob Johnson	ph	1	0	0	0
Totals		34	1	7	1


Name	Pos	AB	R	H	RBI
Stan Hack	3b	4	1	1	0
Billy Herman	2b	4	0	1	0
Ival Goodman	rf	3	0	0	0
Joe Medwick	lf	4	0	1	0
Mel Ott	cf	4	1	1	0
Ernie Lombardi	c	4	0	2	1
Frank McCormick	1b	4	1	1	1
Leo Durocher	ss	3	1	1	0
Johnny Vander Meer	p	0	0	0	0
a-Hank Leiber	ph	1	0	0	0
Bill Lee	p	1	0	0	0
Mace Brown	p	1	0	0	0
Totals		33	4	8	2

a: Lined out for Vander Meer in 3rd inning.
b: Grounded out for Lewis in 5th inning.
c: Grounded out for Kreevich in 6th inning.
d: Struck out for Allen in 7th inning.
e: Struck out for Grove in 9th inning.

Doubles: Dickey, Cronin.
Errors: Foxx, DiMaggio, Cronin, Dickey.
Left on Base: A.L. 8, N.L. 6.
Stolen Bases: Goodman, DiMaggio.
Triple: Ott.

All-Star Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
American League	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	4
National League	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	x	4	8	0


Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Lefty Gomez	3.0	2	1	0	0	1
Johnny Allen	3.0	2	1	1	0	3
Lefty Grove	2.0	4	2	0	0	3


Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Johnny Vander Meer	3.0	1	0	0	0	1
Bill Lee	3.0	1	0	0	1	2
Mace Brown	3.0	5	1	1	1	2

Hit by Pitcher: Goodman (by Allen).
Losing Pitcher: Gomez.
Winning Pitcher: Vander Meer.

Attendance: 27,067.
Length of Game: 1:58.
Umpires A.L.: HP: Steve Basil, 2B: Harry Geisel.
Umpires N.L.: 1B: Lee Ballanfant, 3B: Bill Klem.

Did you know that this was the first All-Star game played without a home run being hit by either team?

Bill Terry, who managed the National League All-Stars in 1938, chose Johnny Vander Meer as his starting pitcher because this was the season of Vander Meer's successive no-hitters.

Seventh inning play-by-play: Lefty Grove pitching and Frank McCormick hit a single. Leo Durocher laid down a bunt to move the runner to second. When Jimmie Foxx fielded the ball, he overthrew first base and Joe DiMaggio retrieved the ball. Durocher had been circling the bases and was approaching home when DiMaggio attempted to throw him out, but overthrew the plate allowing Durocher to score on the first and only All-Star "bunt home run"

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