Cincinnati Reds vs New York Yankees
October 4, 1939 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 4, 1939 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Cincinnati Reds 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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Cincinnati Reds 1, New York Yankees 2

Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Werber 3b 4 0 0 0
Frey 2b 4 0 0 0
Goodman rf 2 1 0 0
McCormick 1b 3 0 2 1
Lombardi c 3 0 0 0
Craft cf 3 0 1 0
Berger lf 3 0 0 0
Myers ss 3 0 1 0
Derringer p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 4 1
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Crosetti ss 4 0 0 0
Rolfe 3b 4 0 0 0
Keller rf 4 1 1 0
DiMaggio cf 3 0 1 0
Dickey c 4 0 1 1
Selkirk lf 3 0 0 0
Gordon 2b 3 1 1 0
Dahlgren 1b 3 0 1 1
Ruffing p 3 0 1 0
Totals 31 2 6 2
Cincinnati 000 100 000140
New York 000 010 001260
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Derringer  L (0-1) 8.1 6 2 2 1 7
Totals
8.1
6
2
2
1
7
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ruffing  W (1-0) 9.0 4 1 1 1 4
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
1
4

  E–None.  DP–New York 3.  2B–New York Dahlgren (1,off Derringer).  3B–New York Keller (1,off Derringer).  Team LOB–1.  IBB–DiMaggio (1,by Derringer).  Team–5.  SB–Goodman (1,2nd base off Ruffing/Dickey).  IBB–Derringer (1,DiMaggio).  U-HP–Bill McGowan (AL), 1B–Beans Reardon (NL), 2B–Bill Summers (AL), 3B–Babe Pinelli (NL).  T–1:33.  A–58,541.
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