Chicago White Sox vs New York Yankees
May 28, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1961 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Chicago White Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Chicago White Sox 3, New York Yankees 5

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Aparicio ss 4 1 1 0
Fox 2b 4 0 1 0
Covington lf 4 1 2 2
Sievers 1b 4 1 2 1
Landis cf 4 0 0 0
Smith 3b 4 0 0 0
Robinson rf 2 0 0 0
Lollar c 4 0 1 0
McLish p 2 0 0 0
  Kemmerer p 0 0 0 0
  Torgeson ph 1 0 0 0
  Baumann p 0 0 0 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 7 3
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Kubek ss 3 1 2 1
Boyer 3b 4 0 1 0
Blanchard c 3 0 1 1
Maris cf,rf 4 1 1 1
Berra rf 3 1 1 0
  Reed cf 0 0 0 0
Cerv lf 3 1 2 0
Skowron 1b 4 0 1 1
Richardson 2b 4 0 0 1
Ditmar p 0 0 0 0
  Gonder ph 1 1 1 0
  Coates p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 10 5
Chicago 003 000 000372
New York 012 200 00x5100
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
McLish  L (2-5) 3.0 7 5 5 2 1
  Kemmerer   3.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Baumann   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Lown   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
4
3
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ditmar   3.0 5 3 3 0 3
  Coates  W (5-2) 6.0 2 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
2
6

  E–Aparicio (5), Covington (1).  DP–Chicago 3, New York 1.  2B–New York Gonder (1,off McLish); Kubek (9,off Baumann).  HR–Chicago Covington (3,3rd inning off Ditmar 1 on, 2 out); Sievers (10,3rd inning off Ditmar 0 on, 2 out), New York Maris (9,2nd inning off McLish 0 on, 0 out).  Team LOB–5.  IBB–Kubek (1,by Kemmerer).  Team–7.  SB–Aparicio (12,2nd base off Ditmar/Blanchard); Richardson (3,2nd base off Kemmerer/Lollar).  CS–Berra (1,2nd base by McLish/Lollar).  IBB–Kemmerer (1,Kubek).  U-HP–Al Smith, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Nestor Chylak.  T–2:33.  A–44,435.
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