Cleveland Indians vs New York Yankees
August 2, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 2, 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 2, New York Yankees 3

Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Raines 3b 3 0 1 1
  Caffie ph 1 0 0 0
  Strickland 3b 0 0 0 0
Smith cf 3 0 1 1
Woodling lf 4 0 1 0
Wertz 1b 4 0 0 0
Colavito rf 4 0 1 0
Avila 2b 4 0 1 0
Nixon c 4 1 2 0
Carrasquel ss 1 0 0 0
  Maris ph 0 0 0 0
Mossi p 3 1 0 0
  McLish p 0 0 0 0
  Altobelli ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 4 0 0 0
McDougald ss 4 1 1 1
Mantle cf 3 1 1 1
Skowron 1b 3 0 0 0
Berra c 2 0 0 0
Howard lf 3 0 0 0
Coleman 2b 2 1 0 0
Kubek 3b 3 0 1 0
Sturdivant p 2 0 0 0
  Simpson ph 1 0 1 1
  Grim p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 3 4 3
Cleveland 001 000 100270
New York 000 000 21x342
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Mossi  L (7-7) 7.1 3 3 3 2 5
  McLish   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
4
3
3
2
5
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Sturdivant  W (9-5) 8.0 7 2 2 3 7
  Grim  SV (12) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
2
2
4
8

  E–Skowron (7), Kubek (10).  DP–Cleveland 1. Carrasquel-Avila-Wertz, New York 1. Coleman-McDougald-Skowron.  2B–Cleveland Nixon (4,off Sturdivant).  3B–Cleveland Smith (2,off Sturdivant).  HR–New York McDougald (10,7th inning off Mossi 0 on 1 out); Mantle (29,7th inning off Mossi 0 on 1 out)..  Team LOB–7.  Team–2.  CS–Woodling (4,2nd base by Sturdivant/Berra).  U-HP–Ed Runge, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Joe Paparella, 3B–Eddie Hurley.  T–2:31.  A–36,599.
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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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