Detroit Tigers vs New York Yankees
May 1, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 1, 1956 at Yankee 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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Detroit Tigers 2, New York Yankees 9

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Tuttle cf 4 0 1 0
Torgeson 1b 4 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 1 2 0
Kuenn ss 4 1 1 1
Boone 3b 3 0 2 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 0 0
Bertoia 2b 3 0 0 0
Streuli c 2 0 1 1
  Small pr 0 0 0 0
  Wilson c 0 0 0 0
Gromek p 1 0 0 0
  Marlowe p 0 0 0 0
  Phillips ph 1 0 0 0
  Maas p 0 0 0 0
  King ph 1 0 0 0
  Foytack p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 7 2
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 4 2 2 2
McDougald 2b 5 1 2 0
Mantle cf 4 2 1 1
Berra c 4 2 2 1
Skowron 1b 3 1 0 0
Martin 3b 3 0 1 1
Howard lf 4 0 2 3
Lumpe ss 3 0 0 0
Ford p 4 1 1 0
Totals 34 9 11 8
Detroit 000 000 200272
New York 104 022 00x9110
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Gromek  L(1-2) 4.0 7 7 4 2 1
  Marlowe   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Maas   1.0 3 2 2 0 1
  Foytack   2.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
11
9
6
4
4
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ford  W(3-0) 9.0 7 2 2 3 6
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
3
6

  E–Kuenn (2), Streuli (1).  DP–New York 2. Skowron, Lumpe-McDougald-Skowron.  2B–Detroit Streuli (1,off Ford); Boone (3,off Ford); Kuenn (3,off Ford)., New York Martin (1,off Gromek).  HR–New York Mantle (5,1st inning off Gromek 0 on 2 out); Bauer (3,6th inning off Maas 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–5.  SF–Martin (1,off Gromek).  IBB–Lumpe (2,by Gromek).  Team–6.  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–2:17.  A–6,771.
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