New York Yankees vs Cleveland Indians
May 3, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 3, 1955 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the New York Yankees 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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New York Yankees 4, Cleveland Indians 7

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 5 1 3 0
Noren lf 4 1 1 0
  Cerv ph 1 0 0 0
Mantle cf 4 1 1 3
Berra c 3 0 0 0
Collins 1b 4 1 1 0
Carey 3b 3 0 1 0
McDougald 2b 4 0 0 0
Hunter ss 2 0 1 1
  Slaughter ph 1 0 0 0
Lopat p 3 0 0 0
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
  Robinson ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 8 4
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf 3 2 1 1
Avila 2b 4 1 1 1
Wertz 1b 4 1 2 1
  Altobelli pr,1b 0 0 0 0
Kiner lf 4 1 1 2
Pope cf 4 0 1 0
Majeski 3b 3 0 1 0
  Dente 3b 1 0 0 0
Strickland ss 3 1 1 0
Foiles c 3 1 2 0
  Hegan c 0 0 0 0
Garcia p 2 0 0 0
  Rosen ph 1 0 0 0
  Newhouser p 0 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 7 10 5
New York 000 013 000481
Cleveland 100 200 40x7100
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Lopat  L(0-3) 6.2 10 7 4 2 3
  Morgan   1.1 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
10
7
4
2
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Garcia  W(2-3) 7.0 7 4 4 2 5
  Newhouser   1.2 1 0 0 2 0
  Narleski  SV(2) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
4
6

  E–Berra (6).  DP–New York 1. Carey-McDougald-Collins, Cleveland 1. Avila-Strickland-Wertz.  2B–New York Collins (1,off Garcia); Bauer (2,off Newhouser)., Cleveland Foiles (4,off Lopat).  HR–New York Mantle (4,6th inning off Garcia 2 on 0 out), Cleveland Smith (3,1st inning off Lopat 0 on 0 out); Kiner (4,4th inning off Lopat 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–7.  Team–3.  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–Bill Grieve, 3B–John Rice.  T–2:30.  A–24,813.
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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."

     

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