New York Yankees vs Kansas City Athletics
May 2, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 2, 1957 at Municipal Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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, Kansas City Athletics 1

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Kubek lf 5 1 2 0
McDougald ss 4 1 1 0
Mantle cf 3 1 1 1
Berra c 4 0 0 1
Skowron 1b 4 0 2 1
Bauer rf 3 0 1 0
Martin 2b 4 0 2 0
Carey 3b 3 0 0 0
Sturdivant p 4 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 9 3
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 2b 3 0 1 0
Thompson c 4 0 0 0
Zernial lf 3 0 1 0
Simpson 1b 4 0 1 0
Noren rf 4 1 0 0
Lopez 3b 4 0 0 0
Pisoni cf 2 0 1 0
  Graff ph 1 0 1 0
Duren p 2 0 1 1
  McDermott ph,p 1 0 0 0
  Cerv ph 1 0 0 0
DeMaestri ss 3 0 1 0
Totals 32 1 7 1
New York 102 000 000391
Kansas City 010 000 000171
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Sturdivant  W (1-1) 9.0 7 1 0 3 3
Totals
9.0
7
1
0
3
3
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Duren  L (0-1) 7.0 6 3 2 3 8
  McDermott   2.0 3 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
3
2
3
8

  E–Martin (2), Zernial (2).  DP–New York 2. Sturdivant-McDougald-Skowron, Martin-McDougald-Skowron.  2B–New York Martin (4,off Duren), Kansas City Simpson (4,off Sturdivant).  3B–New York Kubek (1,off Duren).  SH–McDougald (3,off McDermott).  SF–Berra (1,off Duren).  HBP–Carey (3,by Duren).  Team LOB–10.  Team–7.  SB–Mantle (1,2nd base off Duren/Thompson).  U-HP–Bill McKinley, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Frank Tabacchi, 3B–Charlie Berry.  T–2:40.  A–27,347.
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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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