Baltimore Orioles vs New York Yankees
August 21, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1955 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles 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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Baltimore Orioles 1, New York Yankees 6

Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Marsh 3b 5 0 0 0
Abrams cf,rf 3 0 0 0
Philley lf 3 0 0 0
  Diering cf 0 0 0 0
Pope rf,lf 4 0 1 0
Hale 1b 4 1 2 0
Triandos c 3 0 0 0
Leppert 2b 4 0 0 0
Miranda ss 3 0 2 1
Lopat p 1 0 0 0
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson ph 1 0 0 0
  Dorish p 0 0 0 0
  Causey ph 1 0 0 0
  Moore p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 33 1 6 1
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 5 2 1 1
McDougald 2b 4 1 2 0
Berra c 4 0 2 2
Mantle cf 2 1 1 1
Skowron 1b 2 1 1 1
  Collins ph,1b 2 0 0 0
Howard lf 2 0 0 0
  Noren ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Carey 3b 4 0 1 0
Rizzuto ss 4 1 1 0
Larsen p 3 0 1 1
Totals 34 6 10 6
Baltimore 000 010 000160
New York 012 010 11x6100
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Lopat  L(5-10) 2.2 5 3 3 0 0
  Brown   1.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Dorish   2.0 2 1 0 1 2
  Moore   2.0 3 2 2 2 1
Totals
8.0
10
6
5
3
4
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon   2.1 6 4 4 1 0
  Santiago  W(2-0) 4.2 2 0 0 1 2
  Maglie  SV(2) 2.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
14
5
5
6
8

  E–None.  PB–Triandos 2 (4).  Team LOB–9.  SB–Bauer (8,2nd base off Moore/Triandos); Rizzuto (2,2nd base off Moore/Triandos).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Eddie Hurley, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Ed Runge.  T–2:34.  A–13,924.
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