New York Yankees vs Cleveland Indians
September 16, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 16, 1956 at Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians 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 3, Cleveland Indians 4

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 4 1 3 1
Collins 1b 4 0 1 0
Mantle cf 3 1 1 1
Berra c 4 0 1 1
Noren lf 3 0 0 0
  Coleman 3b 0 0 0 0
  Lumpe ph,ss 1 0 0 0
McDougald ss,2b 4 1 2 0
Martin 2b,3b 4 0 1 0
Carey 3b 2 0 0 0
  Slaughter ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Kucks p 2 0 0 0
  Wilson ph 0 0 0 0
  Grim p 0 0 0 0
  Skowron ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 9 3
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Caffie lf 3 0 0 0
  Busby cf 1 0 0 0
Avila 2b 4 1 1 0
Wertz 1b 4 1 1 2
Colavito rf 4 0 1 0
Rosen 3b 4 0 0 0
Smith cf,lf 3 1 2 0
Hegan c 3 0 0 0
Carrasquel ss 2 1 0 0
Wynn p 3 0 1 2
Totals 31 4 6 4
New York 000 001 110391
Cleveland 000 022 00x461
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Kucks  L(18-8) 6.0 5 4 4 1 5
  Grim   2.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
6
4
4
1
5
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Wynn  W(18-9) 9.0 9 3 3 2 8
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
2
8

  E–Kucks (4), Hegan (9).  DP–Cleveland 2. Avila-Carrasquel-Wertz, Carrasquel-Avila-Wertz.  2B–New York McDougald (14,off Wynn), Cleveland Smith 2 (25,off Kucks 2); Wynn (5,off Kucks).  HR–New York Mantle (49,8th inning off Wynn 0 on 0 out), Cleveland Wertz (29,6th inning off Kucks 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–6.  Team–4.  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–2:18.  A–39,651.
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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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