Detroit Tigers vs New York Yankees
July 19, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 19, 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 3, New York Yankees 7

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 5 0 3 1
  Small pr 0 0 0 0
Phillips 1b 4 1 2 0
Maxwell lf 5 1 2 0
Kaline rf 5 0 2 2
Boone 3b 4 0 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 0 0
Wilson c 4 0 1 0
Brideweser 2b 4 1 1 0
Maas p 2 0 0 0
  Gromek p 0 0 0 0
  Kennedy ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 3 12 3
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
McDougald ss 4 1 1 1
Martin 2b 5 1 2 0
Bauer rf 5 1 3 2
Mantle cf 2 0 1 0
Skowron 1b 4 0 0 1
Howard c 4 1 1 1
Siebern lf 4 0 0 0
Carey 3b 4 2 3 0
Byrne p 3 1 2 2
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 7 13 7
Detroit 002 100 0003120
New York 010 204 00x7131
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Maas  L(0-7) 5.1 11 7 7 3 0
  Gromek   2.2 2 0 0 2 1
Totals
8.0
13
7
7
5
1
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Byrne  W(5-1) 8.2 12 3 3 2 3
  Morgan   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
3
3
2
3

  E–Carey (17).  DP–Detroit 1. Brideweser-Kuenn-Phillips, New York 1. McDougald-Martin-Skowron.  2B–Detroit Maxwell (11,off Byrne), New York Carey (13,off Maas); Bauer (9,off Maas).  3B–New York Byrne (1,off Maas).  Team LOB–10.  SH–Byrne (1,off Maas).  SF–Skowron (1,off Gromek).  IBB–Mantle (5,by Gromek).  Team–11.  SB–Kaline (5,2nd base off Byrne/Howard).  CS–Kuenn (2,2nd base by Byrne/Howard).  U-HP–John Rice, 1B–Bill Summers, 2B–Bill McKinley, 3B–Red Flaherty.  T–2:52.  A–11,099.
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