New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox
September 5, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 5, 1956 at Fenway Park. The New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 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 5, Boston Red Sox 3

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 5 0 0 0
Slaughter lf 5 1 3 0
Mantle cf 4 1 1 0
Berra c 5 2 1 1
Skowron 1b 5 0 2 2
McDougald ss 3 0 1 0
Martin 2b,3b 4 0 0 0
Carey 3b 3 0 0 0
  Noren ph 0 0 0 0
  Carroll pr 0 0 0 0
  Coleman 2b 0 0 0 0
Ford p 3 1 1 0
Totals 37 5 9 3
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Buddin ss 0 1 0 0
  Bolling ss 3 0 0 0
Klaus 3b 2 0 0 0
Williams lf 4 0 3 0
  Stephens pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Gernert 1b 4 0 0 1
Jensen rf 3 0 0 0
Piersall cf 4 0 1 0
Lepcio 2b 4 0 0 0
Daley c 4 2 3 1
Nixon p 3 0 0 0
  Zauchin ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 2
New York 001 100 012590
Boston 100 010 001373
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ford  W(16-5) 9.0 7 3 3 4 5
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
4
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Nixon  L(8-8) 9.0 9 5 3 5 7
Totals
9.0
9
5
3
5
7

  E–Klaus (21), Gernert (3), Nixon (1).  DP–New York 2. Martin-McDougald-Skowron, McDougald-Martin-Skowron.  PB–Daley 2 (3).  2B–New York Slaughter (16,off Nixon), Boston Piersall (36,off Ford); Williams (23,off Ford).  3B–Boston Daley (3,off Ford).  HR–New York Berra (26,8th inning off Nixon 0 on 1 out), Boston Daley (5,9th inning off Ford 0 on 2 out).  HBP–Martin (3,by Nixon).  IBB–Noren (2,by Nixon).  Team LOB–11.  Team–6.  CS–McDougald (8,2nd base by Nixon/Daley).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Joe Paparella, 2B–Eddie Hurley, 3B–Nestor Chylak.
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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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