New York Yankees vs Chicago White Sox
May 5, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 5, 1957 at Comiskey Park I. The New York Yankees defeated the Chicago White 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 4, Chicago White Sox 2

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 4 1 0 0
McDougald ss 4 1 2 1
Mantle cf 3 1 3 2
Berra c 4 1 1 0
Skowron 1b 4 0 0 0
Martin 2b 4 0 1 1
Howard lf 3 0 0 0
  Kubek lf 1 0 0 0
Carey 3b 4 0 0 0
Shantz p 3 0 1 0
Totals 34 4 8 4
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Aparicio ss 5 1 2 0
Fox 2b 3 0 0 0
Minoso lf 3 1 2 0
Lollar c 4 0 1 1
Doby cf 4 0 0 0
Landis rf 3 0 1 1
Rivera 1b 3 0 1 0
  Dropo ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Phillips 3b 4 0 0 0
Pierce p 2 0 0 0
  Esposito ph 1 0 0 0
  Howell p 0 0 0 0
  Kennedy ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 7 2
New York 000 310 000482
Chicago 001 000 010270
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Shantz  W (2-1) 9.0 7 2 2 2 6
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
2
6
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Pierce  L (3-2) 7.0 7 4 3 2 5
  Howell   2.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
8
4
3
3
7

  E–Skowron (3), Martin (4).  2B–New York Berra (2,off Pierce).  3B–New York McDougald (3,off Pierce).  HR–New York Mantle (3,4th inning off Pierce 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–6.  SB–Mantle (2,2nd base off Howell/Lollar).  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Frank Tabacchi.  T–2:18.
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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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