Kansas City Athletics vs New York Yankees
May 16, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 16, 1957 at Yankee 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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Kansas City Athletics 0, New York Yankees 3

Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 4 0 1 0
Graff 2b 2 0 0 0
Zernial lf 4 0 1 0
Simpson rf 4 0 1 0
Thompson c 4 0 0 0
Lopez 3b 3 0 0 0
Pisoni cf 2 0 0 0
  Noren ph 1 0 0 0
Kellner p 1 0 0 0
  McDermott p 1 0 1 0
DeMaestri ss 2 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 4 0
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Richardson 2b 4 0 1 0
McDougald ss 4 0 0 0
Mantle cf 2 1 2 1
Slaughter lf 1 0 0 0
Skowron 1b 3 1 1 0
Howard c 4 0 2 1
Coleman 3b 3 1 2 0
Bauer rf 4 0 1 1
Turley p 4 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 9 3
Kansas City 000 000 000040
New York 001 101 00x390
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Kellner  L (0-3) 3.0 6 2 2 2 1
  McDermott   5.0 3 1 1 4 2
Totals
8.0
9
3
3
6
3
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Turley  W (1-0) 9.0 4 0 0 5 8
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
5
8

  E–None.  DP–Kansas City 2. Graff-DeMaestri-Power, DeMaestri-Graff-Power.  TP–New York 1. Turley-McDougald-Richardson.  2B–Kansas City McDermott (1,off Turley), New York Coleman (2,off Kellner).  3B–New York Skowron (2,off Kellner).  HR–New York Mantle (6,3rd inning off Kellner 0 on 2 out).  HBP–Graff (1,by Turley).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Slaughter (1,off McDermott).  IBB–Skowron (1,by McDermott).  Team–9.  CS–Graff (1,2nd base by Turley/Howard); Richardson (2,2nd base by Kellner/Thompson).  U-HP–Bill Summers, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Nestor Chylak.  T–2:33.  A–11,081.
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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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