Detroit Tigers vs New York Yankees
July 17, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 17, 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 0, New York Yankees 4

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 0
Torgeson 1b 4 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Boone 3b 3 0 2 0
House c 4 0 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 1 0
Brideweser 2b 2 0 0 0
  Kennedy ph 1 0 0 0
Hoeft p 1 0 0 0
  Belardi ph 1 0 0 0
  Maas p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 6 0
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
McDougald ss 5 1 2 1
Howard lf 4 0 1 0
  Siebern lf 0 0 0 0
Mantle cf 2 1 0 0
Berra c 4 1 1 1
Skowron 1b 3 0 2 1
Bauer rf 3 0 1 0
Carey 3b 4 0 0 0
Coleman 2b 2 1 2 0
Kucks p 2 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 9 3
Detroit 000 000 000061
New York 300 001 00x490
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Hoeft  L(11-7) 7.0 9 4 4 5 4
  Maas   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
4
4
5
4
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Kucks  W(14-4) 9.0 6 0 0 3 2
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
3
2

  E–Tuttle (7).  DP–New York 1. Kucks-J. Coleman-Skowron.  2B–Detroit Boone (10,off Kucks), New York Bauer (8,off Hoeft).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Howard (2,off Hoeft); Kucks 2 (3,off Hoeft,off Maas).  HBP–J. Coleman (1,by Maas).  IBB–J. Coleman (2,by Hoeft).  Team–10.  SB–J. Coleman (1,3rd base off Hoeft/House); J. Coleman (1,3rd base off Hoeft/House).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–John Rice.  T–2:16.  A–26,266.
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