Cleveland Indians vs New York Yankees
August 22, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 22, 1956 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 2, New York Yankees 3

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Avila 2b 4 1 1 0
Woodling lf 4 0 2 1
Smith cf 4 0 1 1
Rosen 3b 4 0 1 0
  Strickland pr 0 0 0 0
Ward 1b 4 0 0 0
Pope rf 4 0 0 0
Hegan c 3 0 0 0
  Wertz ph 1 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 2 1 1 0
Wynn p 2 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 3 1 0 0
McDougald ss 4 0 1 0
Mantle cf 3 0 0 1
Berra c 4 0 0 0
Martin 2b 3 2 2 0
Skowron 1b 3 0 1 0
Siebern lf 2 0 1 1
Carey 3b 3 0 0 0
Sturdivant p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 5 2
Cleveland 002 000 000262
New York 011 100 00x350
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wynn  L(14-7) 8.0 5 3 2 1 3
Totals
8.0
5
3
2
1
3
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Sturdivant  W(12-6) 9.0 6 2 2 2 7
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
2
7

  E–Rosen 2 (13).  DP–New York 1. Mantle-Berra.  2B–New York Martin (19,off Wynn).  Team LOB–5.  SF–Siebern (1,off Wynn); Mantle (4,off Wynn).  Team–4.  SB–Avila (12,3rd base off Sturdivant/Berra); Woodling (2,2nd base off Sturdivant/Berra).  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:18.  A–23,584.
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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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