Cleveland Indians vs New York Yankees
May 19, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 19, 1957 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Indians 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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Cleveland Indians 3, New York Yankees 6

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Busby cf 5 0 1 0
Woodling lf 4 0 0 0
Smith 3b 4 0 0 0
Wertz 1b 4 1 1 1
Colavito rf 4 2 4 1
Carrasquel ss 3 0 0 0
Strickland 2b 3 0 1 0
Hegan c 3 0 1 1
  Naragon ph 1 0 0 0
Lemon p 2 0 1 0
  Pitula p 0 0 0 0
  Raines ph 1 0 0 0
  Tomanek p 0 0 0 0
  Altobelli ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 9 3
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Richardson 2b 5 0 2 0
McDougald ss 4 1 1 0
Mantle cf 3 2 2 1
Berra c 3 0 1 1
Skowron 1b 4 0 0 0
Bauer rf 4 1 2 0
Howard lf 4 0 1 1
Carey 3b 4 1 1 0
Shantz p 4 1 1 1
  Kucks p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 6 11 4
Cleveland 000 100 101393
New York 011 022 00x6110
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  L (3-4) 5.2 11 6 4 1 0
  Pitula   0.1 0 0 0 1 1
  Tomanek   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
6
4
2
2
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Shantz  W (3-1) 8.0 9 3 3 2 6
  Kucks  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
2
7

  E–Smith (4), Colavito (2), Strickland (3).  DP–Cleveland 2. Lemon-Strickland-Wertz, Lemon-Strickland-Wertz, New York 1. Shantz-McDougald-Skowron.  2B–New York Bauer 2 (7,off Lemon 2); Carey (1,off Lemon)..  HR–Cleveland Wertz (3,4th inning off Shantz 0 on 1 out); Colavito (4,9th inning off Shantz 0 on 0 out)., New York Mantle (7,3rd inning off Lemon 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–7.  Team–7.  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Frank Tabacchi, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–2:52.  A–28,103.
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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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