New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers
May 22, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 22, 1956 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the New York Yankees 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 2, Detroit Tigers 3

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 3 1 1 0
Martin 2b 4 1 1 0
Collins lf 4 0 2 1
Mantle cf 4 0 0 0
Robinson 1b 4 0 1 1
Howard c 4 0 1 0
McDougald ss 3 0 0 0
Carey 3b 3 0 1 0
Ford p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 1 2 0
Brideweser 2b 3 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 0 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 1 1
Kennedy 3b 3 0 1 0
Phillips 1b 3 0 0 0
Maxwell lf 3 1 1 0
Wilson c 4 1 1 2
Lary p 3 0 1 0
Totals 31 3 8 3
New York 200 000 000271
Detroit 000 000 012380
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ford  L(6-1) 8.0 8 3 3 4 5
Totals
8.0
8
3
3
4
5
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W(2-5) 9.0 7 2 2 2 4
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
2
4

  E–Mantle (2).  DP–New York 1. Ford-Howard-Robinson, Detroit 1. Kuenn-Brideweser-Phillips.  2B–New York Martin (3,off Lary), Detroit Kennedy (2,off Ford); Maxwell (2,off Ford).  HR–Detroit Wilson (1,9th inning off Ford 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–5.  Team–8.  CS–Carey (3,2nd base by Lary/Wilson).  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–2:33.  A–9,503.
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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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