New York Yankees vs Cleveland Indians
May 4, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 4, 1955 at Cleveland Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Indians 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 11, Cleveland Indians 5

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 5 2 2 1
Noren lf 5 1 1 0
Mantle cf 4 1 0 0
Berra c 4 4 3 2
Collins 1b 3 2 1 1
Carey 3b 5 1 2 4
McDougald 2b 4 0 0 1
Hunter ss 2 0 0 0
  Slaughter ph 1 0 0 0
  Rizzuto ss 1 0 1 2
Ford p 0 0 0 0
  Grim p 1 0 0 0
  Byrne ph 1 0 0 0
  Morgan p 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 11 10 11
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf,3b 4 1 1 0
Avila 2b 3 0 1 0
Wertz 1b 4 1 0 0
Kiner lf 2 2 0 0
Pope cf 3 1 2 3
Majeski 3b 1 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 1 2
  Dente pr,3b 1 0 0 0
  Rosen ph 1 0 0 0
  Philley rf 0 0 0 0
Strickland ss 3 0 0 0
  Altobelli ph 1 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 0 0 0
  Simpson ph 1 0 0 0
Lemon p 3 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
  Westlake ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 5 5
New York 301 000 04311100
Cleveland 023 000 000550
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ford   2.2 2 5 5 3 2
  Grim   3.1 1 0 0 0 5
  Morgan  W(1-0) 3.0 2 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
5
5
5
3
10
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L(5-1) 7.2 6 8 8 5 6
  Narleski   1.1 4 3 3 1 3
Totals
9.0
10
11
11
6
9

  E–None.  2B–Cleveland Smith (3,off Ford).  HR–New York Berra (3,3rd inning off Lemon 0 on 1 out); Bauer (5,9th inning off Narleski 0 on 0 out)., Cleveland Pope (2,2nd inning off Ford 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–5.  HBP–Avila (1,by Ford).  Team–4.  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Bill Grieve, 2B–John Rice, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–3:07.  A–27,160.
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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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