New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers
August 26, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 26, 1957 at Briggs Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the New York Yankees 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 2, Detroit Tigers 5

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Kubek ss 4 0 0 0
Slaughter lf 3 1 1 0
Mantle cf 4 1 2 2
Berra c 4 0 2 0
Simpson rf 4 0 1 0
McDougald 2b 4 0 1 0
Collins 1b 4 0 0 0
Lumpe 3b 4 0 1 0
Byrne p 0 0 0 0
  Kucks p 2 0 0 0
  Skowron ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 8 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 2b 3 2 2 0
Kuenn ss 2 1 1 1
Boone 1b 3 0 0 0
Kaline rf 4 1 2 3
Maxwell lf 2 0 0 1
Groth cf 4 0 1 0
Wilson c 4 0 1 0
Finigan 3b 3 0 0 0
Lary p 3 1 0 0
Totals 28 5 7 5
New York 200 000 000281
Detroit 310 010 00x571
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Byrne  L (4-5) 0.1 1 3 3 2 0
  Kucks   7.2 6 2 2 2 2
Totals
8.0
7
5
5
4
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  W (8-15) 9.0 8 2 2 1 3
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
1
3

  E–Kubek (16), Kuenn (20).  DP–New York 2. McDougald-Collins, Lumpe-McDougald-Collins, Detroit 1. Bolling-Kuenn-Boone.  HR–New York Mantle (33,1st inning off Lary 1 on 1 out), Detroit Kaline (17,1st inning off Byrne 2 on 1 out).  SH–Kucks (10,off Lary); Kuenn (6,off Kucks).  Team LOB–7.  SF–Maxwell (3,off Kucks).  HBP–Bolling (1,by Byrne).  Team–6.  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Eddie Rommel, 3B–Johnny Stevens.  T–2:05.  A–23,550.
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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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