New York Yankees vs Detroit Tigers
August 19, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 19, 1959 at Briggs Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Yankees 10, Detroit Tigers 5

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Boyer ss 6 0 1 0
Kubek 3b,lf 4 1 1 0
Mantle cf 5 2 1 0
Berra rf 4 3 2 1
  Carey 3b 0 0 0 0
Howard c 5 1 1 1
Lopez lf 4 2 2 3
  Bauer rf 0 0 0 0
Throneberry 1b 4 1 2 3
Richardson 2b 5 0 3 1
Grba p 0 0 0 0
  Turley p 1 0 0 0
  Slaughter ph 1 0 0 0
  Larsen p 0 0 0 0
  Ford p 2 0 1 0
Totals 41 10 14 9
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 2 1 2 0
Bolling 2b 4 1 1 0
Kuenn rf 5 0 1 1
Kaline cf 2 1 0 0
Maxwell lf 3 1 1 0
Harris 1b 4 1 1 3
Berberet c 4 0 0 0
Bridges ss 2 0 1 1
  Lepcio ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Lary p 2 0 0 0
  Morgan p 1 0 0 0
  Zernial ph 0 0 0 0
  Sisler p 0 0 0 0
  Groth ph 1 0 0 0
  Narleski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 7 5
New York 000 440 00210141
Detroit 302 000 000571
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Grba   0.1 1 3 3 3 0
  Turley   2.2 4 2 2 3 2
  Larsen   0.1 0 0 0 2 0
  Ford  W (13-6) 5.2 2 0 0 3 4
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
11
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  L (15-8) 4.2 7 7 3 0 5
  Morgan   2.1 3 1 1 2 3
  Sisler   1.0 1 0 0 2 1
  Narleski   1.0 3 2 2 1 1
Totals
9.0
14
10
6
5
10

  E–Larsen (1), Yost (14).  DP–New York 1. Ford-Boyer-Throneberry.  PB–Berberet (6).  2B–New York Berra (21,off Lary); Howard (19,off Lary), Detroit Bridges (15,off Turley).  HR–New York Throneberry (5,4th inning off Lary 1 on 2 out); Lopez (17,9th inning off Narleski 1 on 1 out), Detroit Harris (9,3rd inning off Turley 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Bolling (3,off Turley).  Team–11.  CS–Richardson (4,2nd base by Sisler/Berberet).  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Jim Honochick, 2B–Red Flaherty, 3B–Frank Umont.  T–3:27.  A–33,517.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook