New York Yankees vs Baltimore Orioles
September 5, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 5, 1955 at Memorial 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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New York Yankees 5, Baltimore Orioles 3

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 5 1 2 0
McDougald 2b 5 0 0 1
Berra c 4 1 0 0
Mantle cf 4 1 1 1
Skowron 1b 3 0 0 0
  Collins 1b 0 0 0 0
Howard lf 4 0 1 0
  Noren lf 0 0 0 0
Carey 3b 4 1 1 0
Rizzuto ss 3 0 1 0
Coleman p 2 1 1 0
  Byrne p 1 0 0 1
Totals 35 5 7 3
Baltimore Orioles ab   r   h rbi
Marsh 3b,2b 5 0 1 0
Diering cf,3b 5 1 1 0
Dyck lf 3 2 1 0
Triandos 1b,c 4 0 1 0
Philley rf 4 0 2 3
Smith c 4 0 3 0
  Brown pr 0 0 0 0
  Pope cf 0 0 0 0
Miranda ss 4 0 2 0
Leppert 2b 2 0 0 0
  Hale 1b 0 0 0 0
Wight p 2 0 0 0
  Causey ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 11 3
New York 000 220 001570
Baltimore 000 120 0003115
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Coleman   4.2 8 3 3 2 1
  Byrne  W(14-4) 4.1 3 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
3
4
  Baltimore Orioles IP H R ER BB SO
Wight  L(3-7) 9.0 7 5 2 2 6
  Wright   0.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Arroyo   0.2 1 0 0 2 0
  Gettel  W(1-0) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.1
14
7
4
9
11

  E–Marsh 3 (10), Diering (7), Smith (6).  DP–New York 1. Howard-Skowron.  PB–Smith (10).  2B–New York Mantle (23,off Wight), Baltimore Dyck (10,off R. Coleman); Philley (14,off R. Coleman); Smith (18,off Byrne).  3B–New York Carey (11,off Wight).  SF–Byrne (2,off Wight).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Wight (4,off R. Coleman).  Team–8.  CS–Marsh (3,2nd base by R. Coleman/Berra).  U-HP–Johnny Stevens, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Bill Grieve.  T–2:42.  A–28,795.
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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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