New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers
May 3, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 3, 1959 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 8

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Boyer 3b 4 0 1 1
McDougald 2b 4 1 1 0
Bauer rf 3 0 0 0
Skowron 1b 4 0 2 0
Howard c 4 0 0 0
Siebern lf,cf 4 0 1 0
Kubek cf 1 0 0 0
  Larsen ph 1 0 0 0
  Slaughter lf 2 0 1 0
Richardson ss 4 0 1 0
Maas p 0 0 0 0
  Kucks p 1 0 0 0
  Throneberry ph 1 0 0 0
  Coates p 0 0 0 0
  Carey ph 1 1 1 0
  Monroe p 0 0 0 0
  Berra ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 8 1
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 4 2 1 1
Osborne 1b 5 2 2 0
Maxwell lf 3 3 3 6
Kaline cf 4 0 0 0
Doby rf 3 1 0 0
  Groth rf 0 0 0 0
Bridges ss 4 0 1 0
Wilson c 4 0 2 1
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Mossi p 3 0 1 0
Totals 34 8 10 8
New York 000 100 100280
Detroit 400 300 10x8102
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Maas  L (1-2) 0.1 3 4 4 1 0
  Kucks   3.2 5 3 3 1 1
  Coates   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Monroe   2.0 2 1 1 2 1
Totals
8.0
10
8
8
4
4
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Mossi  W (1-1) 9.0 8 2 2 1 6
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
1
6

  E–Yost (3), Bolling (5), Yost (3), Bolling (5).  DP–New York 2. Yost-Bolling-Osborne, Bolling-Bridges, Detroit 2. Yost-Bolling-Osborne, Bolling-Bridges.  2B–New York Carey (1,off Mossi).  HR–Detroit Yost (6,1st inning off Maas 0 on 0 out); Maxwell 3 (5,1st inning off Maas 1 on 0 out,4th inning off Kucks 2 on 2 out,7th inning off Monroe 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–7.  Team–6.  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–2:40.  A–43,438.
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