New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers
August 24, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 24, 1955 at Briggs Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers 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 3, Detroit Tigers 2
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 4 0 1 1
McDougald 2b 4 0 0 0
Berra c 4 1 1 1
Mantle cf 4 1 1 1
Collins 1b 3 0 0 0
Noren lf 4 0 0 0
Carey 3b 4 1 1 0
Rizzuto ss 2 0 1 0
  Robinson ph 1 0 0 0
  Coleman ss 0 0 0 0
Ford p 2 0 0 0
  Skowron ph 1 0 1 0
  Grim p 0 0 0 0
  Larsen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 6 3
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 1 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 3 1 1 2
Torgeson 1b 3 0 0 0
  Phillips J. 1b 0 0 0 0
  Delsing ph 0 0 0 0
Boone 3b 3 0 0 0
Phillips B. lf 3 0 0 0
  Maxwell ph 1 0 0 0
House c 4 0 1 0
Malmberg 2b 3 0 0 0
Gromek p 2 0 0 0
  Aber p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 3 2
New York 000 000 012–360
Detroit 200 000 000–230
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ford   7.0 3 2 2 2 4
  Grim  W(5-2) 1.0 0 0 0 2 1
  Larsen  SV(1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
3
2
2
4
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Gromek  L(11-9) 8.0 6 3 3 0 1
  Aber   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
0
3
  E–None.  HR–New York Berra (22,9th inning off Gromek 0 on 0 out); Mantle (33,9th inning off Gromek 0 on 0 out)..  HBP–Collins (2,by Gromek).  Team LOB–4.  U-HP–Eddie Rommel, 1B–Joe Paparella, 2B–Jim Honochick, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:19.  A–17,598.
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