Kansas City Athletics vs New York Yankees
September 8, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 8, 1955 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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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Kansas City Athletics 0, New York Yankees 13
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 3 0 0 0
  Littrell 1b 1 0 1 0
Simpson cf 3 0 0 0
  Stewart lf 1 0 0 0
Slaughter rf 3 0 0 0
Valo lf,cf 3 0 1 0
Lopez 3b 3 0 1 0
Finigan 2b 4 0 0 0
Schypinski ss 3 0 0 0
Shantz c 3 0 1 0
Ceccarelli p 1 0 1 0
  Herbert p 0 0 0 0
  Harrington p 1 0 0 0
  Renna ph 1 0 0 0
  Boyer p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 5 0
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 3 2 0 0
McDougald 3b 5 2 2 1
Berra c 4 2 2 6
Mantle cf 4 1 1 0
Skowron 1b 4 0 0 0
  Collins 1b 1 0 0 0
Howard lf 3 0 1 1
  Noren lf 0 1 0 0
Martin 2b 4 0 1 0
Rizzuto ss 2 3 1 0
  Coleman ss 0 0 0 0
Turley p 3 2 1 2
Totals 33 13 9 10
Kansas City 000 000 000–054
New York 006 100 06x–1390
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Ceccarelli  L(4-7) 3.0 5 6 4 2 1
  Herbert   0.1 1 1 1 3 0
  Harrington   3.2 0 0 0 1 0
  Boyer   1.0 3 6 2 1 0
Totals
8.0
9
13
7
7
1
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Turley  W(15-13) 9.0 5 0 0 3 7
  Kinder  L(5-2) 1.0 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
10.0
11
5
5
8
11
  E–Lopez 2 (23), Finigan (18), Schypinski (3).  DP–Kansas City 2. Finigan-Schypinski-Power, Schypinski-Finigan-Littrell.  PB–Billy Shantz (3).  Team LOB–6.  SB–Mantle (8,2nd base off Harrington/Billy Shantz).  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Ed Runge, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–2:19.  A–8,425.
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